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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
Artist
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Precision is not reality
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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