My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America. — Henri Matisse America Copy Share Image
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse Armchair Copy Share Image
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse Art 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 Feelings Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I… — Henri Matisse Creative 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
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to… — Henri Matisse Dreams Copy Share Image
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest… — Henri Matisse Despair Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential… — Henri Matisse Believe in god Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed;… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Color Copy Share Image
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. — Henri Matisse Hatred Copy Share Image
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
