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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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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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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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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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 been no more than a medium, as it were.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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