You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.