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You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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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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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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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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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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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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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
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Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.
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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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