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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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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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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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 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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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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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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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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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