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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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
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
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Henri Matisse
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
Another word for creativity is courage.
Henri Matisse
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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
To arrive is to be in prison.
Henri Matisse
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Henri Matisse
