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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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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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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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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