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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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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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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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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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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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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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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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