We are not here to do what has already been done.
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.