Art Is Really A Battle.

There Is A Kind Of Success That Is Indistinguishable From Panic.

Realism Is More Important Than The Sentiment Of The Picture.

Be Sure To Give The Same Expression To A Person's Face That You Give To His Body.

Make People's Portraits In Familiar And Typical Attitudes.

You Have To Have A High Conception, Not Of What You Are Doing, But Of What You May Do One Day: Without That, There's No Point In Working.