You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.