Seurat to Matisse Quotes

“Drawings, as it has so often been said, are the most intimate expressions of an artist. They can reveal the very act of creation, a first idea, the first spontaneous stroke. They can tell much about an artist himself—for instance, that van Gogh in the south of France remembered an etching by Rembrandt, or that Picasso reinterpreted a composition by Millet.”
― William S. Lieberman, Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France-Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art