From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into… — Henri Matisse Beast 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 Artist 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. — 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 Artist 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 Art Copy Share Image
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse… — Henri Matisse Character Copy Share Image
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be… — Henri Matisse Emotion 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 Art Copy Share Image
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young… — 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 Artist 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 Art Copy Share Image
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ... — Henri Matisse Energy Copy Share Image
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. — Henri Matisse Creative Copy Share Image
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. — Henri Matisse Color Copy Share Image
