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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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
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
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
Henri Matisse
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
Henri Matisse
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
Henri Matisse
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
Henri Matisse
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
Henri Matisse
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
Henri Matisse
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
Henri Matisse
Precision is not reality
Henri Matisse
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
Henri Matisse
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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
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
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
Creation begins with vision.
Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
Henri Matisse
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Henri Matisse
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
