An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint. Henri Matisse More Quotes by Henri Matisse More Quotes From Henri Matisse Creation begins with vision. Henri Matisse creation vision A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. Henri Matisse color blue blood Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. Henri Matisse possessing color When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky. Henri Matisse color blue mean 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 Henri Matisse organization sound trying When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free. Henri Matisse bored freedom everyday My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Henri Matisse color choices feelings Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. Henri Matisse parasites hatred If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials. Henri Matisse light happiness people There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. Henri Matisse despair emotional enthusiasm We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe. Henri Matisse views sky tree 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. Henri Matisse feelings may giving To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. Henri Matisse optimistic courage looks If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit. Henri Matisse drawing color world When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. Henri Matisse drawing artist beauty 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. Henri Matisse dream mean art The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time. Henri Matisse effort artist courage 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. Henri Matisse alaska love-is art Another word for creativity is courage. Henri Matisse creativity design courage The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. Henri Matisse quality special art
