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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 model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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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.
Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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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.
Henri Matisse
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
Henri Matisse
Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
Henri Matisse
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
Henri Matisse
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
Henri Matisse
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
Henri Matisse
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
Henri Matisse
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Henri Matisse
Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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