Best Henri Matisse Thoughts
- In love, the one who runs away is the winner. Love
- Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Better
- It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. All
- I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put… Art
- You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or… Alaska
- I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the… Always Tried
- A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or… Art
- I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. Distinguish
- ...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions. Belong
- We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too… Curiosity
- Another word for creativity is courage. Another Word
- To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. Courage
- Nothing can be accomplished without love. Accomplished
- I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… Able
- To arrive is to be in prison. Arrive
- You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your… All
- If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture… All
- There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. Audience
- Creation begins with vision. Begins
- Creativity takes cougrage Art
- It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony. Art
- Work cures everything. Art
- After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. Century
- When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting.… Any
- Better late than never is poor consolation for the man who has lost the opportunity of a lifetime Better
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