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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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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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My curves are not crazy.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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