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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 wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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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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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 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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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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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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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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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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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