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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
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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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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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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Creation begins with vision.
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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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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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