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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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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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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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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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 bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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Creation begins with vision.
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