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Henri Matisse Quotes
«My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
colors, complementary, Delacroix, inspired, observation, pages, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy, rest on, scientific, scientific theory, sensibilities, sensibility, T, The T
«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,»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
abstraction, increasing, interruption, interruptions, paintings, simplified, simplifies, simplifying, The Absolute
«I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
characteristic, freshness, new to, recapture, recaptured
«Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
fritter, fritters, fritter away, joking, lease, leased, leases, leasing, operation, philosophical
«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.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Balance,
Dreams
| Keywords:
armchair, armchairs, calming, depressing, devoid, devoid of, fatigue, relaxation, serenity, soothing, subject matter, troubling