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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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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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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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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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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
Henri Matisse
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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