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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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 whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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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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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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