Pure Drawing Is An Abstraction.

There Is No Such Thing As An Amateur Artist As Different From A Professional Artist. There Is Only Good Art And Bad Art.

One Is Neither Too Scrupulous Nor Too Sincere Nor Too Submissive To Nature; But One Is More Or Less Master Of One's Model, And, Above All, Of The Means Of Expression.

I Am Progressing Very Slowly, For Nature Reveals Herself To Me In Very Complex Forms; And The Progress Needed Is Incessant.

When A Picture Isn't Realized, You Pitch It In The Fire And Start Another One!

Studying The Model And Realizing It Is Sometimes Very Slow In Coming For The Artist.