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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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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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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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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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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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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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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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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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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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