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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
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Exlibrist
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Painter
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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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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Precision is not reality
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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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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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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