Henri Matisse Quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'