Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 3

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• The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

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  Stronger, Energy, Said

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• In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

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  Love, Running, Running Away

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• When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Willpower

  "Matisse on art".

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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• Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

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  Mean, Exercise, Drawing

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• Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

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  Art, Reality, Stronger

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

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• With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

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  Simplicity, Essentials, Form

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

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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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  Beautiful, Art, Color

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

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• My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

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  Color, Four, Made

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• Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

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  Dream, Art, Mean

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

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• The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

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  Children, Artist, Looks

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

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• To arrive is to be in prison.

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  Prison

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• I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

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  Eye, Expression, Imagination

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

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  Art, Flower, Rose

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• An artist is an explorer.

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  Artist, Explorers

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

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• There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

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  Essence, Painting, Form

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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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• I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

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  Light, Effort, Cost

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• Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.

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  Artist, Done, Satisfaction

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• What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

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  Art, Understanding, Painting

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

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  Simple, Color, Rainbow

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• It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

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  Paint, Bothered

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• I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

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  Color, Trying, Complementary Colors

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

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• The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

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  Intuition, Permit, Certain

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.107, Univ of California Press

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• I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

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  Color, Musical, Way

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

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