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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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 truly original artist invents his own signs.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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 am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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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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