How Painful It Is To Find That

What Is Drawing? Not Once In Describing The Shape Of The Mass Did I Shift My Eyes From The Model. Why? Because I Wanted To Be Sure That Nothing Evaded My Grasp Of It... My Objective Is To Test To What Extent My Hands Already Feel What My Eyes See.

In Front Of The Model I Work With The Same Will To Reproduce Truth As If I Were Making A Portrait. I Do Not Correct Nature, I Incorporate Myself Into It; It Directs Me. I Can Only Work With A Model. The Sight Of Human Forms Nourishes And Comforts Me.

True Artists Are Almost The Only Men Who Do Their Work For Pleasure.

Even With All The Documents, You Can Never Forge Nature

What Is Commonly Called Ugliness In Nature Can In Art Become Full Of Beauty.