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Precision is not reality
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 residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
Henri Matisse
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
Henri Matisse
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
Henri Matisse
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Henri Matisse
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
Henri Matisse
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Henri Matisse
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
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
Henri Matisse
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
Henri Matisse
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
