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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn’t build upon hatred, but upon love (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day’s work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us (Henri Matisse Quotes)
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree (Henri Matisse Quotes)
What’s so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn’t understand. A painter doesn’t see everything that he has put in his painting (Henri Matisse Quotes)
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed (Henri Matisse Quotes)
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself (Henri Matisse Quotes)
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express (Henri Matisse Quotes)
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Drawing is... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability (Henri Matisse Quotes)
When I paint green, it doesn’t mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn’t mean sky (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium (Henri Matisse Quotes)
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume (Henri Matisse Quotes)
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject (Henri Matisse Quotes)
I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us (Henri Matisse Quotes)
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction (Henri Matisse Quotes)