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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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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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