For Instead Of Trying To Reproduce Exactly

When I Have A Model Who Is Quiet And Steady And With Whom I Am Acquainted, Then I Draw Repeatedly 'til There Is One Drawing That Is Different From The Rest, Which Does Not Look Like An Ordinary Study, But More Typical And With More Feeling.

The Large Majority Of People Are Asleep And Do Not Wish To Wake Up.

Great Things Are Not Something Accidental, But Must Certainly Be Willed.

Life Is Not Long For Anybody, And The Problem Is Only To Make Something Of It.

That I Was Not Suited To Commerce Or Academic Study In No Way Proves That I Should Also Be Unfit To Be A Painter.