256 Quotes by Henri Matisse

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to...

It has always bothered me that I don’t paint like everyone else.

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.

I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

When you’re out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

There’s nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance – I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

Creation is the artist’s true function; where there is no creation there is no art.