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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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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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