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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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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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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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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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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