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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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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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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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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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