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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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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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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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