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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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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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