To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.