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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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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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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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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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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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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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