Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 5

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• With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Color, Energy

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• Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Drawing, Spirit

  "Minnesota celebrates Matisse".

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• When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Blue, Sky

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• There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

  Henri Matisse

  Emotional, Despair, Enthusiasm

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• When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

  Henri Matisse

  Creative, Looks, Tomatoes

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• All art worthy of the name is religious.

  Henri Matisse

  Religious, Art, Names

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

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• All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

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  Art, Creating, Effort

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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.

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  Work Out, Different, Painting

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• Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Cezanne, Painting, Masters

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

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• A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

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  Artist, Men, Imagination

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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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  Art, Reality, Resistance

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• A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Real, Light

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• I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

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  Art, Buddhist, Prayer

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• The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Special, Quality

  Volkmar Essers, Henri Matisse (1993). “Matisse”, Taschen

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• All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind, Essentials

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

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• One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

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  Instinct, Lost, Behinds

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• I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

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  Art, Vision, World

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• Exactitude is not truth.
  [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

  Henri Matisse

  Truth, Exactitude

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• To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

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  Ideas, Drawing, Precision

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

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• An artist must not feel under any constraint.

  Henri Matisse

  Freedom, Artist, Feels

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• When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

  Henri Matisse

  Children, Artist, Understanding

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

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• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Landscape, Figures

  "Matisse on Art".

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• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

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  Funny, Art, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

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  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

  Henri Matisse

  Independent, Feelings, Individuality

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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