Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 2

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• An artist is an explorer.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Explorers

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Ruins, Painting

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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.

  Henri Matisse

  God, Faith, Hope

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• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Choices, Feelings

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Possessing

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

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Rooms, Mystery

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• To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

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  Courage, Optimistic, Looks

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• There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

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  Beauty, Flower, Positive Thinking

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• When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Artist, Drawing

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• My curves are not crazy.

  Henri Matisse

  Crazy, Curves

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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  Art, Differences, Painting

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• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Happiness, Work

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

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• Exactitude is not truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Exactitude

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.179, Univ of California Press

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

  Henri Matisse

  Quiet, Paint, Starting

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• I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind, Goldfish

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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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.

  Henri Matisse

  Views, Sky, Tree

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• A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Design, Red

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• Work cures everything.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cures

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• Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, Good Day, Fog

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

  Henri Matisse

  Past, Delight, Growing

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• An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Style, Etc

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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

  Henri Matisse

  Light, Color, Feels

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• You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Ideas, Emotion

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

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  Art, Should, Armchairs

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