256 Quotes by Henri Matisse

This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

Me gustaría recuperar esa frescura de visión que es característica de la extrema juventud, cuando todo el mundo es nuevo para ella.

El artista comienza con una visión, una operación creativa que requiere un esfuerzo. La creatividad requiere coraje.

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

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.