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Henri Matisse

Read through the most famous quotes from Henri Matisse




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


#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.


— Henri Matisse


#energy #obtains #seems #stem #witchcraft

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.


— Henri Matisse


#back #flies #free #him #holds

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.


— Henri Matisse


#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.


— Henri Matisse


#between #difference #i #only #paint

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.


— Henri Matisse


#newspaper #soul






About Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Quotes




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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