“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)”

“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)”

“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)”

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

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

“All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.”

“Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.”

“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”

“The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”

“Do whatever you do intensely.”

“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.”

“Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.”