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Only Quotes by Henri Matisse
- Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
- 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…
- The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
- ...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
- Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should…
- There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
- A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm…
- Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
- Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been…
- I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but…
- The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I…
- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means…
- 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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