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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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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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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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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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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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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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Precision is not reality
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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 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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