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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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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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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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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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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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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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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 am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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