I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I […]
Henri Matisse Quotes
Time 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.
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
