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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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 effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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 certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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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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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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