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Precision is not reality

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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Creation begins with vision.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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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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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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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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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 wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
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