Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
The great artist is the simplifier.
By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .