Henri Matisse Quotes

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Red is uplifting.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

What a horrible thing yellow is.

purple does something strange to me

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.