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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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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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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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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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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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