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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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