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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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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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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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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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