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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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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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