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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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Precision is not reality
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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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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