If You Know Exactly What You're Going

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.

I Don't Work From Nature, I Work Like Nature.

It Is Personality With A Penny's Worth Of Talent. Error Which Chances To Rise Above The Commonplace.

I Paint What I Think, Not What I See.

Lord, Protect Me From What I Want!