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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Creation begins with vision.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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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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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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