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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Exlibrist
Graphic Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Le Cateau
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
Anri Matiss
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Loves
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Freedom
Free
Rejoices
Running
Flies
Back
Rejoice
Nothing
Runs
Love
Holds
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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