Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Exlibrist
Graphic Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Le Cateau
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
Anri Matiss
Henri-Emile-Benoît Matisse
Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse
H. Matisse
matisse h.
h. matisse
matisse henri
Henri-Matisse
Matisse
Like
Balance
Relaxation
Influence
Serenity
Armchair
Rather
Depressing
Armchairs
Art
Provides
Troubling
Dream
Purity
Calming
Matter
Subject
Devoid
Mind
Physical
Soothing
Good
Subjects
Fatigue
More quotes by Henri Matisse
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
Henri Matisse
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
Henri Matisse
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
Henri Matisse
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
Henri Matisse
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
Henri Matisse
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
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Henri Matisse
Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
Henri Matisse
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
Henri Matisse
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
Henri Matisse
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
Henri Matisse
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Henri Matisse
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Henri Matisse
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
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
Henri Matisse
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
Henri Matisse
