Art(212)

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
Melvin Maddocks

"I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul."
Mary Ellen Mark

"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."
Henri Matisse

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
Henri Matisse

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."
Henri Matisse

"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light."
Henri Matisse

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
Henri Matisse

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."
Henri Matisse

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
Henri Matisse