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From Quotes by Henri Matisse
- The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One…
- Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
- From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a…
- If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.
- A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
- There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
- It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or…
- Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
- I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
- From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the…
- Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds…
- A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred…
- From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence…
- Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give,…
- With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
- I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns…
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