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Henri Matisse

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Work cures everything.


— Henri Matisse


#everything #work

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.


— Henri Matisse


#conscious #expressing #generate #i #light

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.


— Henri Matisse


#color #cutting #direct #into #me

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.


— Henri Matisse


#derive #fog #good #happiness #illuminating

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.


— Henri Matisse


#i #i do #literally #me #paint

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


— Henri Matisse


#i #medium #more #than #were

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


#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.


— Henri Matisse


#always #flowers #see #them #those

Exactitude is not truth.


— Henri Matisse


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


#buddhist #close #essential #essential thing #frame






About Henri Matisse

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Did you know about Henri Matisse?

Where Renoir Cézanne Matisse and Picasso's works dominated Leo and Gertrude Stein's collection Sarah Stein's collection particularly emphasized Matisse. Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and went into debt from buying work from painters he admired. The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin a painting by Gauguin a drawing by van Gogh and Cézanne's Three Bathers.

He was a draughtsman printmaker and sculptor but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

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