You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
Henri MatisseThe portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
Henri MatisseCreative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.
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