"I'd like to write the way Matisse paints." — A. S. Byatt

"I'd like to write the way Matisse paints."

— A. S. Byatt

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101 Quotes by A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a…
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be…
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly…
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask…
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

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More Matisse Quotes

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens,… — Maya Angelou
In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society… — Vera Wang
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries… — Cyril Connolly
Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I… — Helen Frankenthaler
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to… — Norman Rockwell
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi. — Carl Van Vechten
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley… — Winston Churchill
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is… — Anselm Kiefer
In the end there is only Matisse. — Pablo Picasso
But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I… — Jemima Kirke
All things considered, there is only Matisse. — Pablo Picasso
My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use… — Jean Cocteau

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