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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.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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 been no more than a medium, as it were.
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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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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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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