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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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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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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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Art is an escape from reality.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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.
Henri Matisse
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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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.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
Henri Matisse
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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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.
Henri Matisse
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
Henri Matisse
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.
Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Henri Matisse
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Henri Matisse
