Quotes by : Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject....

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your....

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner....

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Creativity takes courage.

Exactitude is not truth.

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

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he....

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively,....

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from....