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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.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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An artist is an explorer.
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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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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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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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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 want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
Henri Matisse
All art worthy of the name is religious.
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