Art Quote 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.”

Henri Matisse

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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

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To arrive is to be in prison.

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When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was…

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A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

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Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our…

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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect…

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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

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One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

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My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

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