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Creation begins with vision.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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An artist is an explorer.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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