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If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
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 distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.
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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
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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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The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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