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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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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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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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