Quote #14
What I am after, above all, is expression.
More from Henri Matisse
- The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
- Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my pictu…
- I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
- Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will co…
- I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the l…
- There must result a living harmony of colours, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.
- 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…
- For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.