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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
Artist
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
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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 I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Creation begins with vision.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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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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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Henri Matisse
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
Henri Matisse
I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
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