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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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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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Creation begins with vision.
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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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