~ Henri Matisse Quotes ~

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Henri Matisse Quotes


A French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.

Here are some famous quotes by Henri Matisse. 

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

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

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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.