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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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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 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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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Precision is not reality
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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