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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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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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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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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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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
Henri Matisse
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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