Art Quote by Henri Matisse Download Open image “Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.” — Henri Matisse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Impressionism Soul Spirituality
Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know. — Michael McClure Copy Share Image
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy… — Ernst Gombrich 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
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