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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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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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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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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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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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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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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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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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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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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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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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