I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — 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
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 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
