Quotes from Henri Matisse

Another word for creativity is courage.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes me unique. It is also in my so called weird that I am also able to know the difference and then stop my complaining and go out and make something somebody has never seen before. I was just ahead of my time that was what that was. xD !

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

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

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.