Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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French - Artist
December 31, 1869
More Quotes by Henri Matisse
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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.
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.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
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I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.