The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. — 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
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
