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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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 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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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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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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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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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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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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