The Mission Of Art Is To Represent

Children Should Learn To Draw As They Learn To Write, And Such A Mystery Should Not Be Made Of It. They Should Be Encouraged, Not Flattered... Then [later In Life] Double The Effort Is Required To Get The Facility Which Might Have Been Gained Insensibly.

I Don't Like Persuaded Sitters. I Never Could Paint A Cat If The Cat Had Any Scruples, Religious, Superstitious, Or Otherwise, About Sitting.

It's Impossible To Make A Picture Without Values. Values Are The Basis. If They Are Not, Tell Me What Is The Basis.

Beauty Is That Little Something That Fills The Whole World, And Is Contained Neither In A Single Straight Nose, A Long Eyelash, Nor A Blue Mountain. Some See It In A Leg Of Mutton, Others In A Compound Fracture; And To Expect Others To Accept One's Own Definition Of It Is As Absurd As To Expect All Humanity To Use The Same Toilet-brush.

You Are To Draw Not Reality, But The Appearance Of Reality!