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.

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.

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.

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.

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.