Better late than never is poor consolation for the man who has lost the opportunity of a lifetime — Henri Matisse Lost opportunity Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Improvisation Copy Share Image
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of… — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. — Henri Matisse Abstraction Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Audience Copy Share Image
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — 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 Art 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 Character Copy Share Image
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Artist Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced… — Henri Matisse Color 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 Delusion Copy Share Image
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within… — Henri Matisse Desire Copy Share Image
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond… — Henri Matisse Choices 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
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse Art Copy Share Image
![“The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.” quote by Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fba/henri-matisse-1641_color_the-splitting-up-of-color-as-impressioni_2074820.jpg)
