Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.