Art Is Never Chaste. It Ought To

I Imitate Everyone Except Myself.

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.

A Good Picture, Any Picture, Has To Be Bristling With Razor Blades.

To Make Oneself Hated Is More Difficult Than To Make Oneself Loved.

I Understand My Own Pictures Best Six Months After I Have Done Them.