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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.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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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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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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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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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 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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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