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Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
Henri Matisse
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Henri Matisse
An artist is an explorer.
Henri Matisse
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
Henri Matisse
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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
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
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
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
Art is an escape from reality.
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
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
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Henri Matisse
