Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.