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Art is an escape from reality.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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 effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
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Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
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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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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
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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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The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
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Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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Creation begins with vision.
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Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger... and more concentrated.
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