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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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An artist is an explorer.
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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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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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