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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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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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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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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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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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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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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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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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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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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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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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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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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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Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
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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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