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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Creation begins with vision.
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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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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Precision is not reality
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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An artist is an explorer.
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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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