Henri Matisse Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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, Choices, Feelings

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

• 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

  Color, Rainbow, Choices

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press

• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Color, Choices

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 412, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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