Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

  Henri Matisse

  Two, Balance, Three

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• 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

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• With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

  Henri Matisse

  Simplicity, Essentials, Form

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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• Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

  Henri Matisse

  Quiet, Paint, Starting

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• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Happiness, Work

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

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• Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Rooms, Mystery

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• An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• My curves are not crazy.

  Henri Matisse

  Crazy, Curves

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• There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Flower, Positive Thinking

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• Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

  Henri Matisse

  Organization, Trying, Sound

  Volkmar Essers, Henri Matisse (1993). “Matisse”, Taschen

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• 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

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• A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Design, Red

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• What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Understanding, Painting

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

  Henri Matisse

  Blue, Blood, Color

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.211, Univ of California Press

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• Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

  Henri Matisse

  God, Faith, Hope

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• We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

  Henri Matisse

  Views, Sky, Tree

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• Exactitude is not truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Exactitude

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.179, Univ of California Press

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• When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Funny, Willpower

  "Matisse on art".

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• The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

  Henri Matisse

  Children, Artist, Looks

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

  Henri Matisse

  Space, Canvas, Colour

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• 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

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• My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Four, Made

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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