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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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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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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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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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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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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.
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