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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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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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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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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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