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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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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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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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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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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 am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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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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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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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 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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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