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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.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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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 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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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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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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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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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Precision is not reality
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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