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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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Precision is not reality
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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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 effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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