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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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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Precision is not reality
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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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 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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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