The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as somethingrelated to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannotseparate technique from expression. There is only expression.

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in thetechnique of seeing – that is, of understanding, which after all is mainlydependent on feeling. If you attempt to see...