Henri Matisse Quotes

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

I like creating images.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I paint with shapes.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

The art of making art, is putting it together.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.