Matisse and His Famous Paintings – A French Artist and Sculptor
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 — 3 November 1954) 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 Pablo 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. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Why have I never been bored? For more than fifty years I have never ceased to work. – Matisse

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky. – Matisse

I desire pleasure. I am not a revolutionary by principle. I was educated in an entirely different manner. – Matisse

My mother liked everything I did. It is from her affection for her that I always drew what theory failed to offer me to finish the painting. – Matisse

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery? – Matisse

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. – Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. – Matisse

Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share. – Matisse

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 labors it has cost me…. – Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. – Matisse

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. – Matisse

Exactitude is not truth. – Matisse

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving. – Matisse

Seek the strongest color effect possible, the content is of no importance. – Matisse

In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cézanne that I owe the most. – Matisse

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 is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction. – Matisse

I wouldn’t mind turning into a vermilion goldfish. – Matisse

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. – Matisse

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. – Matisse

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. – Matisse