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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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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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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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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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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.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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