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Feelings 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.
- My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
- Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
- 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…
- Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
- I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give…
- I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
- It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
- The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
- I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
- I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
- I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
- ...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
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