The Artists Must See All

...i Am Driven On By An Idea That I Really Only Grasp As It Grows With The Picture.

Perhaps I Might Be Satisfied, Momentarily, With A Work Finished At One Sitting, But I Would Soon Get Bored Looking At It; Therefore, I Prefer To Continue Working On It So That Later I May Recognize It As A Work Of My Mind.

A Work Of Art Must Carry In Itself Its Complete Significance And Impose It Upon The Beholder Even Before He Can Identify The Subject-matter.

If People Knew What Matisse, Supposedly The Painter Of Happiness, Had Gone Through, The Anguish And Tragedy He Had To Overcome To Manage To Capture That Light Which Has Never Left Him, If People Knew All That, They Would Also Realize That This Happiness, This Light, This Dispassionate Wisdom Which Seems To Be Mine, Are Sometimes Well-deserved, Given The Severity Of My Trials.

I Want To Reach That Condensation Of Sensations That Constitutes A Picture.