After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
A weak background is a deadly thing.
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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.