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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
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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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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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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Precision is not reality
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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An artist is an explorer.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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