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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
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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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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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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