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When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
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 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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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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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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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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I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
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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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When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.
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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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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
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From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
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