Henri Matisse Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• 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

• Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

  Henri Matisse

  Order, Color, Emotion

• When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Artist, Drawing

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

• You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Ideas, Emotion

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.49, Univ of California Press

• The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Feelings, Naked

• Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Hatred, Soul

• I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Tree, Copying

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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