Henri Matisse said “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”(pg 49).  Why is it that an artist may not color for the purpose of being descriptive?  It is because he is not experienced enough to know how to use colors to represent something or is it that colors are more of a way to express one’s state of mind or emotion instead of using them technically for a purpose?