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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.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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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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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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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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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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