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Henri Matisse [1869-1954] French

Rank: 101
Artist (with paintings)
Fauvism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was 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.

Art, Good, Courage, Design, Happiness, Love, Nature, Power, Success, Truth, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.	Nature	101
Creativity takes courage.	Courage	102
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.	Art	103
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.	Art	104
Exactitude is not truth.	Truth	105
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.	Art	106
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.	Art	107
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.	Art, Good	108
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.	Good, Happiness, Work	109
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.		110
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.		111
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.	Success	112
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.	Art	113
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.	Power	114
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.		115
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.		116
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.		117
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.		118
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.	Love	119
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.		120
In love, the one who runs away is the winner.		121
My curves are not crazy.		122
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.		123
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.		124
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.		125
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.	Design	126
Work cures everything.		201
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.		202
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.		203
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.		204
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.		205
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.		206
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.		207

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