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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.
Written by Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Written by Henri Matisse
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Written by 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.
Written by Henri Matisse
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.
Written by Henri Matisse
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Written by Henri Matisse
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
Written by Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Written by Henri Matisse
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.
Written by Henri Matisse
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Written by Henri Matisse
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.
Written by Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Written by Henri Matisse
In love, the one who runs away is the winner.
Written by Henri Matisse
Work cures everything.
Written by Henri Matisse
My curves are not crazy.
Written by Henri Matisse
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Written by Henri Matisse
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Written by Henri Matisse
Exactitude is not truth.
Written by Henri Matisse
Creativity takes courage.
Written by Henri Matisse
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Written by Henri Matisse
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Written by Henri Matisse
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Written by Henri Matisse
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Written by Henri Matisse
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
Written by Henri Matisse
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Written by Henri Matisse
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Written by Henri Matisse
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Written by Henri Matisse
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Written by Henri Matisse
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Written by Henri Matisse
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Written by Henri Matisse

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