Exaggerate The Essential, Leave The

It Seems To Me It's A Painter's Duty To Try To Put An Idea Into His Work.

As Practice Makes Perfect, I Cannot But Make Progress; Each Drawing One Makes, Each Study One Paints, Is A Step Forward.

Since Visiting The Abatoirs Of S. France I Have Stopped Eating Meat.

It Always Strikes Me, And It Is Very Peculiar, That, Whenever We See The Image Of Indescribable And Unutterable Desolation—of Loneliness, Poverty, And Misery, The End And Extreme Of Things—the Thought Of God Comes Into One's Mind.

Drawing Is The Root Of Everything, And The Time Spent On That Is Actually All Profit.