Quote

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Henri Matisse

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Red
Design
Color

More quotes by Henri Matisse

Image
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
Henri Matisse
Image
Art is an escape from reality.
Henri Matisse
Image
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
Henri Matisse
Image
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
Image
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse
Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
Image
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Henri Matisse
Image
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
Image
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
Henri Matisse
Image
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
Image
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
Henri Matisse
Image
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
Image
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
Henri Matisse
Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
Henri Matisse
Image
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
Image
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
Henri Matisse
Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
Henri Matisse
Image
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
Image
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
Image
Creation begins with vision.
Henri Matisse