I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed...… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — 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
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
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
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
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
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse Copy Share
