What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my penc…

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the poin…

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about, he thought o…