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Express Quotes by Henri Matisse
- Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
- Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
- The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist…
- The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken…
- Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
- Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every…
- 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…
- The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
- An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to…
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