Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

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.