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
art reality art-is
Art is an escape from reality.
art giving aristocracy
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
color musical way
I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.
art creating effort
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
art reality stronger
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
two balance dimensions
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
ruins painting
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
art understanding painting
What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
wall two world
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
work creativity conscious
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
truth exactitude
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]
art color joy
Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
art america foundation
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
work-out different painting
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.