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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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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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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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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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