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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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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 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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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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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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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.
Henri Matisse
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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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