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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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 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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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My curves are not crazy.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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