It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri MatisseWhen an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
Henri MatisseMy choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.
Henri Matisse