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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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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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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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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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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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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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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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An artist is an explorer.
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