Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
Henri MatisseA picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri MatisseSlowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.
Henri Matisse