When A Thing Bores You, Do Not

The Contour Should Come Last, Only A Very Experienced Eye Can Place It Rightly.

All Painting Worth Its Name, Unless One Is Talking About Black And White, Must Include The Idea Of Color As One Of Its Necessary Supports, In The Same Way That It Includes Chiaroscuro, Proportion, And Perspective.

How Can This World, Which Is So Beautiful, Include So Much Horror?

Talent Does Whatever It Wants To Do. Genius Does Only What It Can.

The Living Model Never Answers Well The Idea Or Impressions The Painter Wishes To Express; One Must, Therefore, Learn To Do Without One, And For That, You Must Acquire Facility, Furnish One's Memory To The Point Of Infinitude, And Make Numerous Drawings After The Old Masters.