What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
Instantaneity is photography.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.