Air Quote by Susan Rothenberg

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

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

— A. S. Byatt

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a…

— Marianne Elliott

Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say,…

— Phil Stern

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about...…

— David Hockney

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

— Pablo Picasso

“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

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how…

— Wayne White

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all…

— Helen Frankenthaler

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look…

— Anselm Kiefer

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking…

— Mordicai Gerstein