After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. — Henri Matisse Armchair Copy Share Image
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. — Henri Matisse Clarity Copy Share Image
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. — Henri Matisse Love Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of… — Henri Matisse Contemplation Copy Share Image
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse Abstraction Copy Share Image
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. — 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 Choices Copy Share Image
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse Fog Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to… — Henri Matisse Character Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced… — Henri Matisse Color Copy Share Image
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.] — Henri Matisse Exactitude Copy Share Image
When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse Discipline Copy Share Image
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse Expression Copy Share Image
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done... — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
![“The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.” quote by Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fba/henri-matisse-1641_color_the-splitting-up-of-color-as-impressioni_2074820.jpg)
![“Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]” quote by Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b1f/henri-matisse-1641_exactitude_exactitude-is-not-truth-fr-l-exactitude_3036624.jpg)
