#you

Music is the best way for me to say I love you. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#best way #i #i love #i love you #love

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

#death #desperate #go #heart #joy

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#being #being famous #doing #gets #sometimes

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#girl #i #innocent #perceived #sweet

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#claws #hasn #much #sharpened #she

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

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#extreme #freshness #i #like #new

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #beginning #firmly #ground #in the beginning

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