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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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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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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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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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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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