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
expression
What I am after, above all, is expression.
art rooms mystery
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
art struggle wages
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
doe lines one-line
Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
artist men imagination
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...
today normal aliens
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.
art landscape figures
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.
artist done satisfaction
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...
artist explorers
An artist is an explorer.
art reality resistance
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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.
art mind goldfish
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
effort creative seeing
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
spring artist essentials
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.