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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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 certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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My curves are not crazy.
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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