Matisse Quote by A. S. Byatt Download Open image “I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.” — A. S. Byatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Matisse Paint Way Writing
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say,… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“When the morning light came into the room it found them curled together in a nest of red and white sheets. It revealed also… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas. — Holland Cotter Copy Share Image
But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
