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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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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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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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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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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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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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