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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 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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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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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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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Precision is not reality
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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An artist is an explorer.
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If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.
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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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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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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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