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Painting Quotes by Henri Matisse
- Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
- I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to…
- A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new…
- It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or…
- I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
- There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have…
- Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
- Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
- 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…
- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- My curves are not crazy.
- 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…
- It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
- I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
- Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that…
- 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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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat