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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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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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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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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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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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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 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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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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