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Henri Matisse Inspirational Quotes (121)

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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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An artist is an explorer.
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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