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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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