“A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.”

“I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul”

“You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”

“An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.”

“In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which seem more profound than they really are, are happening on the surface. But there is another and deeper change in progress. It is of long, steady persistent growth, very little affected and not at all disturbed by surface conditions. The artist of today should be alive to this deeper evolution on which all growth depends, has depended and will depend. On the surface there is the battle of institutions, the illustration of events, the strife between peoples. On the surface there is propaganda and there is the effort to force opinions. The deeper current carries no propaganda. The shock of the surface upheaval does not deflect it from its course. It is in search of fundamental principle; that basic principle of all, which in degree as it is apprehended points the way to beauty and order, and to the law of nature.”