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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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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 truly original artist invents his own signs.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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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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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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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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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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