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Henri Matisse Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format Picture Quote #1

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole Picture Quote #1

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive Picture Quote #1

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free Picture Quote #1

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life Picture Quote #1

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The residuum of another’s expression can never be related to one’s own feeling Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance Picture Quote #1

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc Picture Quote #1

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us Picture Quote #1

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is Picture Quote #1

I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it Picture Quote #1

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe Picture Quote #1

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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them Picture Quote #1

When you’re out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that’s the trick Picture Quote #1

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently Picture Quote #1

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky Picture Quote #1

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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves Picture Quote #1

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple Picture Quote #1

... I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture Picture Quote #1

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format (Henri Matisse Quotes) Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole (Henri Matisse Quotes) Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive (Henri Matisse Quotes) When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free (Henri Matisse Quotes) It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life (Henri Matisse Quotes) The residuum of another’s expression can never be related to one’s own feeling (Henri Matisse Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance (Henri Matisse Quotes) An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc (Henri Matisse Quotes) Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us (Henri Matisse Quotes) Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is (Henri Matisse Quotes) I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black (Henri Matisse Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it (Henri Matisse Quotes) We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe (Henri Matisse Quotes) An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language (Henri Matisse Quotes) 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 Quotes) Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them (Henri Matisse Quotes) When you’re out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that’s the trick (Henri Matisse Quotes) When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently (Henri Matisse Quotes) When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky (Henri Matisse Quotes) From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves (Henri Matisse Quotes) An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas (Henri Matisse Quotes) 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 Quotes) Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple (Henri Matisse Quotes) ... I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture (Henri Matisse Quotes) I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were (Henri Matisse Quotes)

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