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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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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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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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An artist is an explorer.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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