Henri Matisse Quotes

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

We 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.

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.