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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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