Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.