When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
Henri MatisseWe ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
Henri MatisseI would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Henri Matisse