Skip to main content

Cutting straight into color r...

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Put a colour upon a canvas - ...

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

I was driven on by.. A force ...

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 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

The use of expressive colors ...

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

From the moment I held the bo...

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 233 quotes

The living model, the naked b...

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 233 quotes

A young woman has young claws...

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 233 quotes

You study, you learn, but you...

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Drawing is . . . not an exerc...

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Creation begins with vision. ...

Creation begins with vision.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Don't try to be original. Be ...

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The artist begins with a visi...

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Simple colours can affect the...

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I don't paint women, I paint ...

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

If drawing belongs to the wor...

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

Everything that we see in our...

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The artists must see all thin...

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I've been forty years discove...

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

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Truth and reality in art begi...

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....