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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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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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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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