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Paint Quotes by Henri Matisse
- When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
- When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
- It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
- Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
- Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every…
- When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint…
- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
- There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to…
- It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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