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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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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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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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Do remember that one line does nothing it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
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