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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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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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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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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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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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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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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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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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 am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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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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