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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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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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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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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