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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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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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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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