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A young painter who cannot li...

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

When I started to paint I fel...

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

All that is not useful in a p...

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

Photographs will always be im...

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

It is with color that you ren...

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

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

When I put a green, it is not...

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

There is no interruption betw...

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

When I eat a tomato I look at...

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A certain blue enters your so...

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

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

Don't wait for inspiration. I...

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

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

It is not enough to place col...

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

Ever since there have been me...

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

A thimbleful of red is redder...

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

I cannot copy nature in a ser...

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

My choice of colors does not ...

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

What's so astonishing about n...

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

If people knew what Matisse, ...

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

The artist has to look at lif...

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

Would not it be best to leave...

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

Henri Matisse 233 quotes

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