What did Henri Matisse mean by: I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. - Henri Matisse Copy
+ A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Blood, Color, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Color, Rainbow, Simple, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ A certain color tones you up. It’s the concentration of timbres. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Color, Tone, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Eye, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, Color, Importance, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Black And White, Color, Queens, 0 - Henri Matisse
+ Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, 0 - Henri Matisse
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France