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All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.
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Precision is not reality
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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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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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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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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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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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My curves are not crazy.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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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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I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
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