Henri Matisse Looks Quotations

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.