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Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
Drawing is the honesty of art.
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.
Draw lines - draw a lot of lines
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole ... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.
Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.
