256 Quotes by Henri Matisse

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Art is an escape from reality.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.