Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.