When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.