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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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An artist is an explorer.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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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.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Henri Matisse
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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