A Tree Growing Out Of

It Is Harder To See Than It Is To Express. The Whole Value Of Art Rests In The Artist's Ability To See Well Into What Is Before Him. ... The Model Will Serve Equally For A Rembrandt Drawing Or For Anybody's Magazine Cover. A Genius Is One Who Can See. The Others Can Often 'draw' Remarkably Well. ... Those Who Get Their Technique First, Expecting Sight To Come To Them Later, Get A Technique Of A Very Ready-made Order.

If You Do Not Act On A Suggestion At First, You Grow Dull To Its Message.

You Will Never Draw The Sense Of A Thing Unless You Are Feeling It At The Time You Work.

If The Artist's Will Is Not Strong He Will See All Kinds Of Unessential Things.

An Artist Must First Of All Respond To His Subject, He Must Be Filled With Emotion Toward That Subject And Then He Must Make His Technique So Sincere, So Translucent That It May Be Forgotten, The Value Of The Subject Shining Through It.