“Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.”

“Do whatever you do intensely.”

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

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”

“Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.”

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

“Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.”