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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends (Henri Matisse Quotes)
An artist is an explorer (Henri Matisse Quotes)
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue (Henri Matisse Quotes)
... for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions (Henri Matisse Quotes)
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage (Henri Matisse Quotes)
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony (Henri Matisse Quotes)
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue (Henri Matisse Quotes)
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art (Henri Matisse Quotes)
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice (Henri Matisse Quotes)
... The more a picture has to give, the greater it is (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model (Henri Matisse Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer (Henri Matisse Quotes)
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance (Henri Matisse Quotes)
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I shan’t get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it. (Henri Matisse Quotes)
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another¦ (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. (Henri Matisse Quotes)