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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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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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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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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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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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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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 is an explorer.
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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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