Matisse Quotes

25 Matisse quotes by 23 unique authors

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
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
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
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
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
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
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi. — Carl Van Vechten
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
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
In the end there is only Matisse. — Pablo Picasso
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
All things considered, there is only Matisse. — Pablo Picasso
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
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
Matisse renovates rather than innovates. — Guillaume Apollinaire
It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly. — Gelett Burgess
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. — Wassily Kandinsky
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
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
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
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture… — Henri Matisse
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern… — Joni Mitchell
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works… — Jacob Rothschild
I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures. — Mordicai Gerstein
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. — Howard Hodgkin

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