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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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 put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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 wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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