“The only way one can be a painter is by being a painter. You can't be a painter by writing about it or talking about it, you have to do it.”— Frank Auerbach
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character.”— Camille Pissarro
“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”— Edgar Degas
“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs a lot of practice to be a good one.”— Liberty Hyde Bailey