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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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