Matisse Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
— A. S. Byatt
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
— Maya Angelou
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In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater…
— Vera Wang
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and…
— Norman Rockwell
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I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
— Carl Van Vechten
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the…
— Winston Churchill
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As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at…
— Anselm Kiefer
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In the end there is only Matisse.
— Pablo Picasso
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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by…
— Jemima Kirke
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
— Pablo Picasso
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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in…
— Jean Cocteau
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I…
— David Hockney
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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.
— Gelett Burgess
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In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a…
— Georg Baselitz
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that…
— Pablo Picasso
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The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the…
— Steve Martin
Who Wrote These Matisse Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Matisse Quotes as follows: