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An artist is an explorer.
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
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
Henri Matisse
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
Henri Matisse
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Henri Matisse
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
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
Henri Matisse
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
Henri Matisse
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
Henri Matisse
