Quote #32

Seek the strongest Color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

More from Henri Matisse

  1. Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
  2. The artist has but one idea. He is born with it and spends a lifetime developing it and making it breathe. I basically work without theory.…
  3. In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cezanne that I owe the most.
  4. The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist i…
  5. I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
  6. We must see all life as if we were children.
  7. I do not literally paint the table, but the emotion it produces on me...
  8. Without passion there is no art.

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