Matisse Fauvist Portraits Set of 3 – Woman with a Hat, Madame Matisse & Red Madras Headdress

“Beauty is always strange. I do not mean that it is deliberately, coldly strange, for in that case it would be a monster off the rails of life. I say that it always contains a little strangeness, a naive strangeness.”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Perfumes, colors, and sounds respond to one another.”

“Art hovers around the truth, but with the firm intention not to burn itself.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Tears fall in my heart as rain falls on the town.”

“Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“If the world were clear, art would not be.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“Art is born of constraints, lives of struggles, and dies of freedom.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Art is the reflection that the dazzled human soul gives back of the splendor of the beautiful.”