Henri Matisse Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

• 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

  Feelings, Way, Painting

• Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

  Henri Matisse

  Cutting, Wish, Tongue

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

• 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

  Unique, Mind, Events

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Mean

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

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Essence, Painting, Form

• 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

• Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Ruins, Painting

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Understanding, Painting

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

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Work Out, Different, Painting

• 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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