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

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

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

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.

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.

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