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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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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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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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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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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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