Henri Matisse Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

  Henri Matisse

  Love, Running, Freedom

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.174, Univ of California Press

• In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Passion, Reality

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

• Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

  Henri Matisse

  Passion, Glowing, Expression

  "Notes d'un Peintre". "La Grande Revue", as translated by Jack Flam in "Matisse on Art" (1995), December 25, 1908.

• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Passion, Expression, Faces

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