Henri Matisse Quotes About Feelings
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
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Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the theoretical knowledge of them will lead him to use a certain tone in a certain place. But I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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