Henri Matisse Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Effort, Mastery

• The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Language, Importance

• 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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