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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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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.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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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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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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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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Precision is not reality
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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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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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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