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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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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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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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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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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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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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