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

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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.

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.

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

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