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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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More quotes by Henri Matisse
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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
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
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
Henri Matisse
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
Henri Matisse
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
Henri Matisse
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
Henri Matisse
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Henri Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
Henri Matisse
My curves are not crazy.
Henri Matisse
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
Henri Matisse
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
Henri Matisse
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
Henri Matisse
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
Henri Matisse
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
Henri Matisse
