Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
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- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- 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.
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
- Creativity takes courage.