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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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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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