You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art. . . these dismal moods have very little compensation.
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.