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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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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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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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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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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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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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