Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. 
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. 
The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. 
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. 
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. 
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. 
Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential ... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success. 
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. 
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. 
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation. 
In large studio paintings ... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded ... 
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. 
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. 
Subject has the variety of life. 
I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method. 