Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expressio….

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters..

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….

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue.

Better gray than garishness..

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….

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems..

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing..

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone..

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer..

Drawing is the honesty of art..

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….

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience..

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes..

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact..

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good..

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint..

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... ….

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names..

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines.