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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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 sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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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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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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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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Precision is not reality
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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