Henri Matisse citáty

Henri-Émile-Benoit Matisse byl francouzský malíř, sochař a grafik, proslulý svou prací s barvou a svým brilantním kreslířským uměním. Byl hlavní postavou uměleckého směru zvaného fauvismus. Spolu s Picassem patří k výtvarníkům, kteří nejvíce ovlivnili vývoj umění v druhé polovině dvacátého století. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. prosinec 1869 – 3. listopad 1954   •   Další jména Henri-émile-benoit Matisse, Henri-Emile Matisse
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Henri Matisse nejznámější citáty

„Přesnost není pravda.“

Originál: (fr) L'exactitude n'est pas la vérité.
Zdroj: Matisse, Henri, 1972, Écrits et propos sur l'art, Hermann

„Instinkt musí být potlačen zrovna tak, jako člověk musí prořezat větve stromu, aby lépe rostl.“

Zdroj: [Beckettová, Wendy, 2002, Toulky světem malířství, Levné knihy KMa, 4, 336, 80-7321-260-9]

Henri Matisse: Citáty anglicky

“Another word for creativity is courage.”

Varianta: Creativity takes courage.

“Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality.”

"Interview with Henri Matisse" by Jacques Guenne, L'Art Vivant (15 September 1925), translated by Jack Flam in Matisse on Art (1995)
1921 - 1940
Kontext: Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”

As quoted in Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present (1998), p. 62
Posthumous quotes

“A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humility: white, pure and candid with a mind as if empty, in a spiritual state analogous to that of a communicant approaching the Lord's Table. Obviously it is necessary to have all of one's experience behind one, but to preserve the freshness of one's instincts.”

Un musicien a dit: en art la vérité, le réel commence quand on ne comprend plus rien à ce qu'on fait, à ce q'uon sait, et qu'il reste en vous une énergie d'autant plus forte qu'elle est contrariée, compressée, comprimée. Il faut alors se présenter avec la plus grande humilité, tout-blanc, tout pur, candide, le cerveau semblant-vide, dans un état d'esprit analogue à celui du communiant approchant la Sainte Table. Il faut évidemment avoir tout son acquis derrière soi et avoir su garder la fraîcheur de l'Instinct.
1940s, Jazz (1947)

“I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”

As quoted in Smithsonian (November 1986)
Posthumous quotes

“I see with horror that the 'Salon Automne' is looming, for I haven't got, and shan't have, all I meant to be able to show there, the big stillife ['Harmony in Red'] has taken up so much of my time; but since I am content with the outcome, I tell myself one can't hope to be fast as well as good.”

Quote of Matisse in his letter to Sergei Shchukin [the Russian buyer of his still-life w:The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), that year], 6 augustus 1908; as quoted by w:Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869 – 1908, Penguin UK, 28 Sep, 2006, note 182
1900s

“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”

As quoted in Matisse (1984) by Pierre Schneider
Posthumous quotes

“I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things.”

Je ne peins pas les choses. Je ne peins que les différences entre les choses.
"Henri Matisse: contre vents et marées : peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943"
1930s

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