Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed...… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
