If It's Good, It's Mine.

You Must Always Work Not Just Within But Below Your Means. If You Can Handle Three Elements, Handle Only Two. If You Can Handle Ten, Then Handle Only Five. In That Way The Ones You Do Handle, You Handle With More Ease, More Mastery, And You Create A Feeling Of Strength In Reserve.

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.

If Only We Could Pull Out Our Brain And Use Only Our Eyes.

The People Who Make Art Their Business Are Mostly Imposters.

When One Starts From A Portrait And Seeks By Successive Eliminations To Find Pure Form... One Inevitably Ends Up With An Egg.