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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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