“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.”

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”

“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”

“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”

“The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.”