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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
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Free
Rejoices
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Rejoice
Nothing
Runs
Love
Holds
Loves
Passion
Freedom
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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