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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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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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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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