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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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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 wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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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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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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