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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
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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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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
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My curves are not crazy.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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