Charcoal Quote by David Hockney

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…

— Pablo Picasso

The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't…

— Susan Rothenberg

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon…

— Elaine Scarry

“What was the point of accurately rendering sketches, when everyone could draw up the same picture in their minds? What was special about being…

— Michael Walterich

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things…

— Milan Kundera

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable…

— Margaret Atwood

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

“If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the…

— Thomas Pynchon

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

— Robert Henri

“While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the…

— Herman Melville

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he…

— Frankie Cosmos