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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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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.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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.
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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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To arrive is to be in prison.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
Henri Matisse
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
Henri Matisse
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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