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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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My curves are not crazy.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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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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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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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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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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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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