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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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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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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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My curves are not crazy.
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The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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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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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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Art is an escape from reality.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
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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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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
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Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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