Henri Matisse Quotes
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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
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Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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An artist is an explorer.
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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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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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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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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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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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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It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.
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Another word for creativity is courage.
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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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One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
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Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.
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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
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It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.
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Precision is not reality
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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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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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Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]
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When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
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