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
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.
art soul newspapers
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
art real light
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
light effort cost
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.
children artist firsts
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
past digging generations
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
color red
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
beauty artist drawing
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
artist light color
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
dream art mean
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.
color hands moments
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
color feelings looks
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
art differences painting
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
exactitude
Exactitude is not truth.