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Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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More quotes by Henri Matisse
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
Henri Matisse
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Henri Matisse
I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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
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
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
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
Henri Matisse
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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
Henri Matisse
