Henri Matisse Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.”
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“The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.”
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
-- Henri MatisseSource : Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller
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“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
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“My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…”
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“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
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“Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.”
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“Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.”
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“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”
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“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
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“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
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“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”
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“Drawing is putting a line around an idea.”
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“I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.”
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“Nothing can be accomplished without love.”
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“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
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“It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else”
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“It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.”
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“Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.”
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“With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.”
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“I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.”
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“...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”
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“Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...”
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“Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”
-- Henri MatisseSource : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”
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“Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.”
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“A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.”
-- Henri MatisseSource : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.211, Univ of California Press
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“When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.”
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“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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