Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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
Liberation
Drawing
Color
Means
Mean
Even
More quotes by Henri Matisse
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
Henri Matisse
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
Henri Matisse
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
Henri Matisse
Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
Henri Matisse
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Henri Matisse
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
Henri Matisse
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
Henri Matisse
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
Henri Matisse
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
Henri Matisse
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
Creation begins with vision.
Henri Matisse
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
Henri Matisse
