Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters? — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse Abstraction Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express… — Henri Matisse Color Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse Feelings 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 Creative Copy Share Image
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise,… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must… — Henri Matisse Beauty Copy Share Image
I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the… — Henri Matisse Color Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of… — Henri Matisse Art 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… — Henri Matisse English Copy Share Image
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I… — Henri Matisse Artist 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… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. — Henri Matisse Courage Copy Share Image
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. — Henri Matisse Approach Copy Share Image
When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse Funny Copy Share Image
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