A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse 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 Copy Share Image
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. — 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 Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse 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 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
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as… — Henri Matisse 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 anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
