Henri Matisse

Quotes

• “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothi...”
• “I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is t...”
• “Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the ...”
• “An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prison...”
• “He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”
• “Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
• “With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.”
• “I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
• “Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”