(7 quotes found)
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
Pablo Picasso
“Matisses and Miro's hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights.”
Robert Hughes
“Project Matisse epitomizes the finest qualities of the Java desktop renaissance. No other tool I have tried makes it so easy to get it right in the design of a Java GUI, and the code it generates is both clean and comprehensible.”
Rick Ross
“For our 1992 retrospective of Matisse, I'd traveled from Japan to Australia to Mexico to the Soviet Union and could not find this painting. So this summer, when the call came, I said, 'How could it be?”
John Elderfield
“Matisse is light years ahead of VI [Eclipse Visual Interface].”
Maher Masri
“The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse.”
Michael Easton
“Matisse is a new visual GUI builder that allows developers to save a lot of time laying out their GUIs. This has been a huge problem in the Java industry for many years. This is the big, new, hot feature that the developers are really clamoring for.”
Dan Roberts
