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Nothing can be accomplished without love.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
Designer
Drawer
Exlibrist
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Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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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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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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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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Art is an escape from reality.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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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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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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