The Great Artist Is The Simplifier.

Drawing Is The Root Of Everything.

Accurate Drawing, Accurate Colour, Is Perhaps Not The Essential Thing To Aim At, Because The Reflection Of Reality In A Mirror, If It Could Be Caught, Colour And All, Would Not Be A Picture At All, No More Than A Photograph.

Painting Is A Faith And That It Brings With It The Duty To Pay No Heed To Public Opinion - And That In It One Conquers By Perseverance And Not By Giving In.

Oh! I Must Somehow Manage To Do A Figure In A Few Strokes.

For My Part I Know Nothing With Any Certainty, But The Sight Of The Stars Makes Me Dream.