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

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

Drawing is the honesty of art.

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

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

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.

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