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Painter Quotes by Henri Matisse
- A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
- Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every…
- What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
- All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who…
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- A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne