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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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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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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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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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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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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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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
Henri Matisse
