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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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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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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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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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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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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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My curves are not crazy.
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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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