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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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 to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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