When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.

We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated — we are all meant to love and be loved.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

I don't like the way my hair looks, so we're going to do the whole show over.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter