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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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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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My curves are not crazy.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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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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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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