Quote #36
Without passion there is no art.
More from Henri Matisse
- We must see all life as if we were children.
- The artist only sees old truths in a new light,because there are no new truths.
- 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…
- What I dream of is an art of balance,of purity and serenity.
- 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.…
- Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painter's disposal for the expression of his feeling…
- Seek the strongest Color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
- There is discontinuity between my former paintings and my cut-outs,only with more absloluteness and more abstraction.