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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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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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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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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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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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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 don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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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 is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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