I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.