Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
What a horrible thing yellow is.
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.