When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
Henri MatisseI am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
Henri MatisseThe splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.
Henri Matisse