Achieve Quote by John Berger

The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't…

— Susan Rothenberg

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from…

— Anthony Caro

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about...…

— David Hockney

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he…

— Frankie Cosmos

“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the…

— Isabel Allende

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon…

— Elaine Scarry

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize…

— Clive Bell