To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.