Famous Quotes / Henri Matisse
9 Quotations by Henri Matisse
- 1. A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of ...
- 2. A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before ...
- 3. Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- 4. I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
- 5. I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
- 6. It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc ...
- 7. There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he ...
- 8. Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are ...
- 9. What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje ...