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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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