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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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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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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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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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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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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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