Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matissewas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth31 December 1869
CountryFrance
paint bothered
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
beautiful art color
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
mean color sky
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
love running freedom
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
children artist looks
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.
funny-inspirational willpower stubbornness
When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.
drawing ideas lines
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
exactitude
Exactitude is not truth.
color possessing
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
artist effort mastery
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.
cutting wish tongue
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
art love-is alaska
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.
dream depressing art
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.
accomplished without-love
Nothing can be accomplished without love.