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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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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 am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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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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