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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Le Cateau
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse
Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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 am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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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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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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My curves are not crazy.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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