Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Action is the foundation of all success.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Lord, protect me from what I want!

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.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.