Quotes by : Henri Matisse

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

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are....

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....

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to....

Creativity takes courage.