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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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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so 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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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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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