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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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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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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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
Henri Matisse
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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