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Art should be something like a...

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I've been forty years discover...

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

There is no interruption betwe...

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 233 quotes

I dream of an art of balance, ...

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

All that is not useful in a pi...

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The sign for which I forge an ...

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Truly, I'm not joking when I t...

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 233 quotes

From Bonheur de Vivre - I was ...

From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Did not the artists of the gre...

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 233 quotes

A colourist makes his presence...

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Put a colour upon a canvas - i...

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Composition is the art of arra...

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Composition, the aim of which ...

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Each work of art is a collecti...

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 233 quotes

Fit the parts together, one in...

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The effort to see things witho...

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 233 quotes

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit...

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 233 quotes

The artist begins with a visio...

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I shan't get free of my emotio...

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 233 quotes

I counted solely on the clarit...

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

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