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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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