#de

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#after #artist #color #expression #means

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

— Henri Matisse

#anyone #cost #efforts #hide #i

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

#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#cannot #choices #everyone #fine #i

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #point #say #some #stop

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everyone #i #life #like

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#adventurous #being #cases #daring #guess

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#be true #business #cave #could #deaf

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#call #company #daring #desire #everything

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#i #i can #image #integrate #mouth