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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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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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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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