Better gray than garishness.

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.

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of art.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines