There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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.
Henri MatisseTime extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri MatisseIt would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse