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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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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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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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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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Precision is not reality
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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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