Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.