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Refiguring the Figure

I never know how to draw a figure.

 

I try to draw so fast that it’s done before there’s time to figure it out.

 

I ask models not to pose, just to be alive and at home in their bodies, and often to move as I draw. 

 

When Matisse was on his deathbed, Giacometti came to make some sketches of him.

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Matisse leaned over to look at one and said, “You don’t know how to draw. You’ll never know how
to draw.”

 

Then after a moment he said, “I don’t know how to draw either.”
 

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