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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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