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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.
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 model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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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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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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