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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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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 residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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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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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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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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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Precision is not reality
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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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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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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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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