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An artist must not feel under ...

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Drawing is putting a line arou...

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Seek for the boldest color pos...

Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The main function of color sho...

The main function of color should be to serve expression.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Color, even more than drawing,...

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Color exists in itself, posses...

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

It is with color that you rend...

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Purer colors... have in themse...

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 233 quotes

My choice of colors does not r...

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Color helps to express light, ...

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A thimbleful of red is redder ...

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A certain blue enters your sou...

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Don't wait for inspiration. It...

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

In art, truth and reality begi...

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 233 quotes

To draw is to make an idea pre...

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

If drawing belongs to the worl...

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I have always sought to be und...

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul o

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Truth and reality in art do no...

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

We ought to view ourselves wit...

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 233 quotes

The arts have a development wh...

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 233 quotes

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