"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
― Henri Matisse
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― Henri Matisse
More From Henri Matisse
- "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."
- "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."
- "An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."
More In Art
- "Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."― Constantin Stanislavski
- "Politics and football don’t mix."― Ruud Gullit
- "I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn’s work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn’t simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved ‘isms’ and twists."― Jerry Saltz