Henri MatisseThinkers

Color is tasked chiefly to serve expression.

Color is not just to be placed beside one another, they must also react on one another lest they produce a cacophony.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Color , in its purer manifestations, have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Color is of sole importance, in painting. An artist need only seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no importance..

Color the painter should only really touch after years of preparation; not descriptively, but as a means of personal expression.

Color is a thing which to cut into is reminiscent of the sculptor's direct carving.

Color , if put upon a canvas, not only colors with that color the part of the canvas to which the color has been applied, but it also colors the surrounding space with the complementary.

Color is on the side of the senses in painting just as drawing is on the side of the spirit.

Color is able to affect the intimate feelings with all the more force when it is a simple color . . . because it is simple.

Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.