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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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 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.
Henri Matisse
My curves are not crazy.
Henri Matisse
Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
Henri Matisse
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
Henri Matisse
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
Henri Matisse
Another word for creativity is courage.
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
All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
Creation begins with vision.
Henri Matisse
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
