Best Henri Matisse Words
- It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. Best
- The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. Expression
- What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my… Able
- I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. Assert
- The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in… Artist
- The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. Acquired
- The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I… Advance
- Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. All
- Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds… Base
- Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. Cezanne
- A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... Art
- A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred… Artist
- My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my… Absolutely
- The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I… Alone
- I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. Began
- Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done... All
- From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait. Contemplation
- With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. Abstraction
- The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… Arrangement
- I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found… Artist
- A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. Certain
- Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet… Art
- Never ruin a good painting with the truth. Good
- What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see… Art
- The wall around the window does not create two worlds. Create
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