Henri Matisse Quotes

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  What i dream of is an art of balance.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Art, Dream

• A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Work

• Work cures everything.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Work

• 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

  Topics in Dream

• 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

  Tags in Expression

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

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Life

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

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Winner

• Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Soul

• I’m growing old, I delight in the past.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Past

• 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

  Topics in Youth

• 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

  Topics in Work

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

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Emotion

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

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Emotion

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

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Love

• Exactitude is not truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Truth

• 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

  Topics in Nature

• 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

  Topics in Success

Henri Matisse (37)

Birth:	31st December, 1869
Death:	3rd November, 1954
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Artist

About

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. He was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. In 1891, he studied at the Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. Initially he painted still lifes and landscapes in a traditional style, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency.

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