A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Better late than never is poor consolation for the man who has lost the opportunity of a lifetime — 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
