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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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My curves are not crazy.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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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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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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An artist is an explorer.
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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