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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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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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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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.
Henri Matisse
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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