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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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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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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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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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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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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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My curves are not crazy.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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