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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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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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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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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Art is an escape from reality.
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