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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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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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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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