Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Better gray than garishness.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.