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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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 moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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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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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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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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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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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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