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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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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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