Art is, after all, only a trace. Like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

It takes 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, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists – find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest – but let us not ask them to please us in doing it.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money’s worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Finished persons are very common – people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one’s own time.

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.