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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
Artist
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Painter
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Sculptor
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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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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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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