Henri-Émile-Benoît 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 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 twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve, 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.
Creativity takes courage. courage
Exactitude is not truth. truth
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. love
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. art
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. art
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. happiness
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. nature