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.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

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

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.

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