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Expression is not a matter of ...

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Perhaps I might be satisfied, ...

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 233 quotes

When I started to paint I felt...

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

It is through the human figure...

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The residuum of another's expr...

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

What matters most to me? To wo...

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 233 quotes

I have simply wished to assert...

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The artist has to look at life...

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 233 quotes

The things that are acquired c...

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The sign is determined at the ...

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.

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Hatred is a parasite that devo...

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Love wants to rise, not to be ...

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 233 quotes

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of...

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A work of art must carry in it...

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A distinction is made between ...

A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

My models, my human figures, a...

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 233 quotes

The model for me is a touchsto...

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.

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I was very embarrassed when my...

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Above all, an artist must neve...

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

From the first shock of the co...

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

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