The difficulty in life is the choice.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

There is no must in art because art is free.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.