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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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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
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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 Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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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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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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