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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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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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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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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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To arrive is to be in prison.
Henri Matisse
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
Henri Matisse
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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