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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the 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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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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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 truly original artist invents his own signs.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Precision is not reality
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
Henri Matisse
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Henri Matisse
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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Henri Matisse
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.
Henri Matisse
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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