Daily quote by Emotions

• "I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
  After a pause full of intense thought on my part, I asked: "But if one hasn't always emotion. What then?"
  "Do not paint," he quickly answered. "When I came in here to work this morning I had no emotion, so I took a horseback ride. When I returned I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.
  • Henri Matisse, as quoted in an interview with Clara T. MacChesney (1912), in Matisse on Art (1995) edited by Jack D. Flam, p. 66