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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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 things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
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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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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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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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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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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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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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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Henri Matisse
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Henri Matisse
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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