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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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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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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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An artist is an explorer.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of 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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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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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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