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Henri Matisse Quotes
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe (Henri Matisse Quotes)
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language (Henri Matisse Quotes)
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them (Henri Matisse Quotes)
When you’re out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that’s the trick (Henri Matisse Quotes)
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently (Henri Matisse Quotes)
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky (Henri Matisse Quotes)
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves (Henri Matisse Quotes)
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn’t one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple (Henri Matisse Quotes)
... I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting (Henri Matisse Quotes)
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A picture must possess a real power to generate light... For a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A work of art must carry within itself its complete significance and impose that upon the beholder before he recognises the subject matter (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me (Henri Matisse Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Truly, I’m not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don’t want to fritter away the new lease on life I’ve been given (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture’s execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so (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)
Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind (Henri Matisse Quotes)
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way (Henri Matisse Quotes)