Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

He claimed that he might have curtailed his art education if he had been more successful in that endeavor. Background and early life
In 1858 Frederick Carl Frieseke's grandparents Frederick Frieseke and his wife emigrated from Pritzerbe (near Brandenburg Germany) with their sons including Herman Carl. They settled in the small central Michigan town of Owosso.

Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7 1874 – August 24 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. He is especially known for painting female subjects both indoors and out.