Henri Matisse Quotes - Page 3

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• 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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• Work cures everything.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cures

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• An artist is an explorer.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Explorers

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Ruins, Painting

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• Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Soul, Newspapers

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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• It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

  Henri Matisse

  Beautiful, Art, Color

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• 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”

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• In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

  Henri Matisse

  Love, Running, Running Away

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• I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

  Henri Matisse

  Past, Delight, Growing

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• I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

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  Eye, Expression, Imagination

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• Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Done, Satisfaction

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, Rose

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• The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

  Henri Matisse

  Intuition, Permit, Certain

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.107, Univ of California Press

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• It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

  Henri Matisse

  Paint, Bothered

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• To arrive is to be in prison.

  Henri Matisse

  Prison

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• I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Want, Condensation

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

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Color, Rainbow

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• ...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Giving, Greater

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• Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Should, Armchairs

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• The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

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  Spring, Artist, Lightning

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• The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

  Henri Matisse

  Stronger, Energy, Said

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• The truly original artist invents his own signs.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Originals

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• What I am after, above all, is expression.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

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  Light, Effort, Cost

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• There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

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  Essence, Painting, Form

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