Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 7

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• A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Young, Claws

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• It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

  Henri Matisse

  Cute, Art, Paint

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• The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Civilization, Development

  Hayward Gallery, Henri Matisse, Arts Council of Great Britain (1968). “Matisse: 1869-1954. A retrospective exhibition”

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• Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Music, Jazz

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Way, Painting

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• Precision is not reality

  Henri Matisse

  Reality, Precision

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• A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Drawing, Charcoal

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

  Henri Matisse

  Garden, Doors, Order

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• The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Feelings, Naked

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• I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

  Henri Matisse

  Work Out, Different, Painting

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• The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.

  Henri Matisse

  Writing, Use, Would Be

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• I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Balance

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Effort, Creative

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• Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Taken, Suits

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

  Henri Matisse

  Hands, Color, Moments

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• Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Artist, Creation

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.217, Univ of California Press

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• I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Way, My Way

  Henri Matisse, John M. Jacobus (1973). “Henri Matisse”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Color, Should

  "Matisse on Art".

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• A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

  Henri Matisse

  Artistic, Should, Impress

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• I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

  Henri Matisse

  Mediums, Has Beens

  "Smithsonian" Magazine, November 1986.

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• I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Tree, Copying

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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• Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Use, Elements

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• Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

  Henri Matisse

  Bored, Mind, Finishing

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

  Henri Matisse

  Wall, Two, Doe

  Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

  Henri Matisse

  Doe, Lines, One Line

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.48, Univ of California Press

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