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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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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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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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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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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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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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 wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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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