Art Quote by Henri Matisse Download Open image “Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.” — Henri Matisse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Creation Function
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind. — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
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… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
