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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 truly original artist invents his own signs.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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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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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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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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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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