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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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A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
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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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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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
Henri Matisse
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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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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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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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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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
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
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Henri Matisse
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.
Henri Matisse
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
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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