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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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 is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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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.
Henri Matisse
Nothing can be accomplished without love.
Henri Matisse
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Precision is not reality
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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