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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
What I am after, above all, is expression.
— Henri Matisse
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
— Henri Matisse
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
— Henri Matisse
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
— Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul
— Henri Matisse
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
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
— Henri Matisse
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
— Henri Matisse
I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.
— Mordicai Gerstein
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
— Pablo Picasso
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You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.
— Frank Stella
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
— Zoe Heller
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
— Henri Matisse
Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
— Henri Matisse
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
— Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
— Henri Matisse
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
— Henri Matisse
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
— Henri Matisse
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
— Henri Matisse
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
— Henri Matisse
For whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
— Henri Matisse
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.
— Henri Matisse
Exactitude is not truth.
— Henri Matisse
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
Work cures everything.
— Henri Matisse
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.
— Ravi Shankar
To arrive is to be in prison.
— Henri Matisse
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
— Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
— Henri Matisse
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex. - 1946 — Henri Matisse
What I dream of is an art of balance.
— Henri Matisse
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.
— Henri Matisse
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
— Henri Matisse
I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
— Don DeLillo
In the end there is only Matisse.
— Pablo Picasso
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
— A.S. Byatt
Creation begins with vision.
— Henri Matisse
An artist is an explorer.
— Henri Matisse
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
— Henri Matisse
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 helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
— Henri Matisse
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.
— Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
— Henri Matisse
I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
— Amrita Sher-Gil
Drawing is ... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
— Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround
— Henri Matisse
Creative takes courage -Henri Matisse
— J. L. Silvermist
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
— Henri Matisse
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
— Henri Matisse
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
— Henri Matisse
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul
— Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
— Henri Matisse
The main function of color should be to serve expression.
— Henri Matisse
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
— Henri Matisse
I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.
— Carl Van Vechten
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
— Henri Matisse
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
— Henri Matisse
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
— Henri Matisse
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
— Henri Matisse
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
— Henri Matisse
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
— Henri Matisse
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
— Henri Matisse
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
— Henri Matisse
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.
— Henri Matisse
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
— Henri Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious.
— Henri Matisse
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
— Henri Matisse
Nothing can be accomplished without love.
— Henri Matisse
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
— Wassily Kandinsky
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
— Henri Matisse
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free ...
— Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
— Henri Matisse
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
— Henri Matisse
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
— Henri Matisse
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
— Henri Matisse
Art is an escape from reality.
— Henri Matisse
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
— Henri Matisse
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
— Henri Matisse
