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I would like to recapture tha...

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Time extracts various values ...

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Work cures everything. ...

Work cures everything.

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

The effort to see things with...

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

Beauty comes from the balance...

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

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

If I close my eyes, I see thi...

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

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

I've been forty years discove...

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

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

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

It is my dream to create an a...

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

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