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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.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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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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.
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Creation begins with vision.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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My curves are not crazy.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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An artist is an explorer.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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