Henri Matisse

There are always flowers for those who want to see them…

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be…

Exactitude is not truth…

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures…

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that…

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things…

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds…

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not…

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of…

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back…

Creativity takes courage…

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner…

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence…

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time…