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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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