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The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion. - Henri Matisse Quotes

The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. - Henri Matisse Quotes

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Jazz

Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence, - Henri Matisse Quotes

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,

Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

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

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.

Art French Artist

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Advantage French Artist

Jazz is rhythm and meaning. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

French Artist Jazz

My curves are not crazy. - Henri Matisse Quotes

My curves are not crazy.

The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects. - Henri Matisse Quotes

The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

French Artist Instinct

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 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.

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters? - Henri Matisse Quotes

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

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 of a tightrope. - Henri Matisse Quotes

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 of a tightrope.

Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An - Henri Matisse Quotes

Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. - Henri Matisse Quotes

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Art French Artist

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters - Henri Matisse Quotes

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. - Henri Matisse Quotes

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Energy French Artist

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. - Henri Matisse Quotes

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Art French Artist

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t - Henri Matisse Quotes

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t

Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Creativity takes courage.

Courage French Artist

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. - Henri Matisse Quotes

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Creativity French Artist

In love, the one who runs away is the winner. - Henri Matisse Quotes

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

French Artist Love

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Emotions French Artist

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. - Henri Matisse Quotes

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

Art

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. - Henri Matisse Quotes

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

French Artist Love

Exactitude is not truth. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Exactitude is not truth.

French Artist Truth

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. - Henri Matisse Quotes

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Desire French Artist

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

French Artist Painting

Work cures everything. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Work cures everything.

French Artist Work

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

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.

Art French Artist

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you. - Henri Matisse Quotes

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

Character French Artist

I'm growing old, I delight in the past. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Age And Aging French Artist

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

French Artist Happiness

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the - Henri Matisse Quotes

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

Art

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France? - Henri Matisse Quotes

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France?

Money

A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi - Henri Matisse Quotes

A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi

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 Quotes

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.

French Artist God

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

French Artist Mind

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse Quotes

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

French Artist Soul

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 Quotes

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.

Why not grow something useful, like potatoes? - Henri Matisse Quotes

Why not grow something useful, like potatoes?

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue - Henri Matisse Quotes

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

Work

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. - Henri Matisse Quotes

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse Quotes

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel. - Henri Matisse Quotes

These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.

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

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.

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