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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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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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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 distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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