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Nothing can be accomplished without love.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Creation begins with vision.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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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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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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An artist is an explorer.
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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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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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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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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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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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