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

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.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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

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

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.