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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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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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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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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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My curves are not crazy.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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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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