Henri Matisse — "The artist must look at all things as if he were seeing them for the first time."

"It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must be appropriately placed to enhance each other."

"My purpose is to render my emotion."

"When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky."

"There are two ways of looking at anything: with the eye of the body and with the eye of the soul."

"To copy the object is not to copy its meaning."