Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.