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

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

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

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

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

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

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.