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An artist is an explorer.

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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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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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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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
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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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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
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To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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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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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.
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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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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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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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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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