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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
Artist
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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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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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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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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Art is an escape from reality.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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