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

Drawing is the honesty of art.

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

Better gray than garishness.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

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

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.