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

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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My curves are not crazy.
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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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