Quotes We Love: Henri Matisse
“The Sorrows of The King ” by Henri Matisse, 1952,
“…this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time: He has to look at life as he did when he was a child and, if he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.”
Henri Matisse,
Nice 1925
Henri Matisse, 1953 (extract from “Looking at Life through the eyes of a child”)
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Andrew Wamae