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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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Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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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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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
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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.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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An artist is an explorer.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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