Henri Matisse Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Reality, Resistance

• Art is an escape from reality.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Reality, Art Is

• 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

• Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Reality, Stronger

  Hayward Gallery, Henri Matisse, Arts Council of Great Britain (1968). “Matisse: 1869-1954. A retrospective exhibition”

• Precision is not reality

  Henri Matisse

  Reality, Precision

• Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Mean

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

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