Henri Matisse Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

  Henri Matisse

  Giving, Feelings, May

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.67, Univ of California Press

• 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

• 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

• Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Feelings, Looks

• 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 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

• ...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

  Feelings, Want, Opinion

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.43, Univ of California Press

• I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Way, My Way

  Henri Matisse, John M. Jacobus (1973). “Henri Matisse”, Harry N Abrams Inc

• Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Exercise, Drawing

• It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

  Henri Matisse

  Religious, Feelings, Humanity

• The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Feelings, Imitation

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

• I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

  Henri Matisse

  Independent, Feelings, Individuality

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.81, Univ of California Press

• Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Color, Rainbow

• 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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