Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion… — Henri Matisse Copy Share
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it;… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. — 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
