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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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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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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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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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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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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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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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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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