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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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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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