Henri Matisse Quotes

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

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  Positive, Beautiful, Art

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

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  Art, Inspiration, Waiting

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

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• Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

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  Order, Color, Emotion

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• Another word for creativity is courage.

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  Courage, Creativity, Design

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• Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

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  Simple, Trying, Be Good

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• Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

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  Independent, Creativity, Play

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• Nothing can be accomplished without love.

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  Accomplished, Without Love

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• The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

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  Children, Artist, Firsts

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• Art is an escape from reality.

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  Art, Reality, Art Is

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• Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

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  Ideas, Drawing, Sketching

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• The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

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  Prayer, Mind, Essentials

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• Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

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  Effort, Creative, Seeing

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• Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

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  Eye, Artist, Effort

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Creation begins with vision.

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  Vision, Creation

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

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• I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

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  Queens, Black And White, Color

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• A certain blue enters your soul

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  Blue, Soul, Certain

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.211, Univ of California Press

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• Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

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  Color, Possessing

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Ifs

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• Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

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  Art, Soul, Newspapers

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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• It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

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  Light, Color, Feels

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• When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

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  Mean, Blue, Color

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• Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

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  Art, Rooms, Mystery

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

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  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

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  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

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  Quiet, Paint, Starting

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