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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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An artist is an explorer.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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