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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
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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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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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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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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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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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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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