Henri Matisse Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Art

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

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

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Emotional, Feelings

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

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Should, Armchairs

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

  Henri Matisse

  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.

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind, Goldfish

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

• Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Inspiration, Waiting

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

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

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

• 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

• 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

• Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Soul, Newspapers

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

• It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

  Henri Matisse

  Cute, Art, Paint

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Rooms, Mystery

• 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

  Art, Vision, World

• Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cutting, Color

  "The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse".

• 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

• If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

  Henri Matisse

  Photography, Art, Men

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, Rose

• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Love Is, Alaska

  "Time" magazine, June 26, 1950.

• Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Color, Importance

• Work cures everything.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cures

• Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Struggle, Wages

• 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.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Buddhist, Prayer

• What I dream of is an art of balance.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Balance

  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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