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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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Precision is not reality
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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