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Creation begins with vision.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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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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