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
allow directly draw drawing filling instead outline paper starting
The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion.
simple drawing charcoal
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.
drawing tree copying
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
color drawing spirit
Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
mean exercise drawing
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
mean drawing color
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
color drawing world
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
expression drawing paper
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.
drawing ideas precision
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
drawing ideas lines
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
beauty artist drawing
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
attacks panic reading
I've been reading about the panic attacks Matisse had when he was painting.
artist cliches easily flower greatest hand modesty order shatter summon
The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.
best color decided favorable intervals introduce prints reason separate size suited
I'd like to introduce my color prints under the most favorable of conditions. For this reason I must separate them by intervals of a different character. I decided that handwriting was best suited for this purpose. The exceptional size of the writing