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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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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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My curves are not crazy.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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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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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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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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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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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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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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