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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
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Graphic Artist
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
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Starting
Quiet
Alone
Free
Felt
Gloriously
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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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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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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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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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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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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 want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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An artist is an explorer.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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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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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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