Top 160 Henri Matisse Quotes (2024 Update)
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Henri Matisse Quote: “One must, of course, have one’s entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.”

151. “One must, of course, have one’s entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “Creation is the artist’s true function; where there is no creation there is no art.”

152. “Creation is the artist’s true function; where there is no creation there is no art.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “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.”

153. “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.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “Put a colour upon a canvas – it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.”

154. “Put a colour upon a canvas – it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.”

155. “This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”

156. “I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man...”

157. “A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man...”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “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.”

158. “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

Henri Matisse Quote: “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.”

159. “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.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.”

160. “From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.”

161. “I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.”

162. “There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “A certain color tones you up. It’s the concentration of timbres.”

163. “A certain color tones you up. It’s the concentration of timbres.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “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.”

164. “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.”

— Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quote: “An artist must not feel under any constraint.”

165. “An artist must not feel under any constraint.”

— Henri Matisse

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