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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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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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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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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