The true traveler never arrives.

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

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.

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

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.