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 feelings imitation
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
independent feelings individuality
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
feelings way my-way
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
beauty feelings body
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
color choices feelings
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
religious humanity feelings
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
feelings way painting
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
art emotional feelings
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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.
giving feelings may
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.
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
sculpture work
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.