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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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