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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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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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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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 sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
Henri Matisse
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
Henri Matisse
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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