Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.