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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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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Art is an escape from reality.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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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 artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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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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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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