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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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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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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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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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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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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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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Precision is not reality
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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 living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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