Introduction: A Life in Words and Pictures -- 1. Interview with Guillaume Apollinaire, 1907 -- 2. Notes of a Painter, 1908 -- 3. Statement on Photography, 1908 -- 4. Sarah Stein's Notes, 1908 -- 5. Interview with Charles Estienne, 1909 -- 6. Interview with J. Sacs, 1910 -- 7. Interview with Ernst Goldschmidt, 1911 -- 8. Interview with Clara T. MacChesney, 1912 -- 9. Visit by Robert Rey, 1913 -- 10. Interview with Ragnar Hoppe, 1919 -- 11. Interview with Jacques Guenne, 1925 -- 12. Statement to Teriade: On Fauvism and Color, 1929 -- 13. Statement to Teriade: On Travel, 1930 -- 14. Statement to Teriade: Around a Retrospective, 1931 -- 15. Interview with Gotthard Jedlicka, 1931 -- 16. Interview with Pierre Courthion, 1931 -- 17. Statement to Teriade: On Creativity, 1933 -- 18. Interview with Dorothy Dudley, 1933 -- 19.Letters to Alexander Romm, 1934 -- 20. On Modernism and Tradition, 1935 -- 21. Statements to Teriade: On the Purity of the Means, 1936 -- 22. On Cezanne's Three Bathers, 1936 -- 23. Divagations, 1937 -- 24. Henry de Montherlant: Listening to Matisse, 1938 -- 25. Notes of a Painter on his Drawing, 1939 -- 26. Interview with Francis Carco, 1941 -- 27. On Transformations, 1942 -- 28. Matisse's Radio Interviews, 1942 -- 29. Conversations with Louis Aragon: On Signs, 1942 -- 30. Interview with Marguette Bouvier, 1944 -- 31. The Role and Modalities of Color, 1945 -- 32. Observations on Painting, 1945 -- 33. Interview with Leon Degand, 1945 -- 34. Black is a Color, 1946 -- 35. How I made my Books, 1946 -- 36. Oceania, 1946 -- 37. Jazz, 1947 -- 38. Interview with Andre Marchand: The Eye, 1947 -- 39. The Path of Color, 1947 -- 40. Exactitude is not Truth, 1947 -- 41. Letter to Henry Clifford, 1948 -- 42. Interview with R.W. Howe, 1949 -- 43. Henri Matisse Speaks to You, 1950 -- 44. Interview with Georges Charbonnier, 1950 -- 45. The Text: Preface to the Tokyo Exhibition, 1951 -- 46. The Chapel of the Rosary, 1951 -- 47. The Chapel of the Rosary: On the Murals and Windows, 1951 -- 48. Statements to Teriade: Matisse Speaks, 1951 -- 49. Testimonial, 1951 -- 50. Interview with Andre Verdet, 1952 -- 51. Looking at Life with the Eyes of a Child, 1953 -- 52. Portraits, 1954.