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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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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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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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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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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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