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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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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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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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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 truly original artist invents his own signs.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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