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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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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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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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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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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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