Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.