Emotion Quotes by Henri Matisse

8 Emotion quotes by Henri Matisse

Matisse translates color into feeling across eight succinct statements. The painter’s perspective turns emotion into a visual rhythm, offering a brief yet vivid companion for those who appreciate artful insight.

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Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can…

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Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express…

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Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse…

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must…

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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the…

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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be…

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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

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One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

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My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

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