Reality Is Obtained Not By Imitation, But

All Manifestations Of Art Are But Landmarks In The Progress Of The Human Spirit Toward A Thing But As Yet Sensed And Far From Being Possessed.

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.

The Pictures Which Do Not Represent An Intense Interest Cannot Expect To Create An Intense Interest.

To Be Free, To Be Happy And To Be Fruitful, Can Only Be Attained Through Sacrifice Of Many Common But Overestimated Things.

Through Art, Mysterious Bonds Of Understanding And Of Knowledge Are Established Among Men. They Are The Bonds Of A Great Brotherhood. Those Who Are Of The Brotherhood Know Each Other, And Time And Space Cannot Separate Them.