If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly 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… — Susan Rothenberg 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… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art,… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
