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

“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.”

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

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.”

“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”