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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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