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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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An artist is an explorer.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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