Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
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.
Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.
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 expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
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.
It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.