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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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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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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
My curves are not crazy.
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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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Creation begins with vision.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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