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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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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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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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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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Creation begins with vision.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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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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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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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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