Humans Quotes by Henri Matisse

8 Humans quotes by Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse’s painterly eye translates into these eight concise thoughts. He uses vivid language to color the human experience, offering a bright, artistic glimpse of our shared world.

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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.

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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend…

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Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a…

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

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A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by…

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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of…

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It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

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