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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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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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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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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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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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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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