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Creation is the artist's true function where there is no creation there is no art.
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 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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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
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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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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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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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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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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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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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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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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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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
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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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Precision is not reality
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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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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