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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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 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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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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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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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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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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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.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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