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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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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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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've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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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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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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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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