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
courage creativity design
Another word for creativity is courage.
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.
art emotional feelings
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
funny art expression
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
accomplished without-love
Nothing can be accomplished without love.
art buddhist prayer
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.
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.
organization trying sound
Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
color possessing
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
mean cutting two
From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means...
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
drawing ideas lines
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
funny-inspirational willpower stubbornness
When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.