With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse Expression Copy Share Image
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest… — Henri Matisse Despair Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to… — Henri Matisse Dreams Copy Share Image
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be… — Henri Matisse Emotion 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 Bored Copy Share Image
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done... — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse Discipline Copy Share Image
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.] — Henri Matisse Exactitude Copy Share Image
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. — Henri Matisse Armchair Copy Share Image
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