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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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