Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
The true traveler never arrives.
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.