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
fetch saws embarrassed
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.
art quality special
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
ideas expression emotion
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.
mean artist expression
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.
art cures
Work cures everything.
inspirational music jazz
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
past delight growing
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
art flower history
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.
wall struggle hard-work
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
figures theme models
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model...
flower positive-thinking looks
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
vision creation
Creation begins with vision.
photography art men
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
cute art paint
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.