Drawing with scissors: To cut to the quick in color reminds me of the direct cutting of sculptors. - Henri Matisse

We are born with the sensibility of a period of civilization. We are not masters of our production; it is imposed upon us.

For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.

At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.