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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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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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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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 living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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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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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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