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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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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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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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My curves are not crazy.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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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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