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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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More quotes by Henri Matisse
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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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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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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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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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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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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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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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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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.
Henri Matisse
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.
Henri Matisse
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
Henri Matisse
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
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.
Henri Matisse
Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
Henri Matisse
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Henri Matisse
