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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 to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Buddhist God Prayer

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Art Art Theory Creativity Design Emotion Matisse Painting Sculpture Self Expression Subject

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Art Creativity Inspiration Matisse

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Courage Original Thoughts

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Gift Gratefulness Healing Illness Joy Operation Suffering Surgery

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Artist Language Of Art Signs

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Art Artist Fauvism Inspirational Life

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

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Paintings Writing Process

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Art Artist

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Painters Painting

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Free Nothing Back

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Happiness Day Good

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

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Flowers Want See

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Influence Yourself Walk

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.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Art Balance Mind

Creativity takes courage.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Creativity Takes

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Preparation Color Artist

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Drawing Like Gesture

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Soul Newspaper

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Difference Paint Between

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Color Energy Seems

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Work Time Values

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

~ Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse Style Reputation Artist
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