Art Quote by Henri Matisse

A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such…

— Mervyn Levy

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

— Anubhav Sinha

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first…

— Ala Bashir

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that…

— Camille Paglia

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and…

— Rene Huyghe

Drawing is the honesty of art.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres