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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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Art is an escape from reality.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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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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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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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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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Henri Matisse
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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