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Brilliant Matisse Quotes:
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity
devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter... like a comforting
influence, a mental balm - something like a good armchair."
"Suppose I have to paint a woman's body: first I give it
grace, charm, then it is necessary to give it something more.
I am going to condense the meaning of this body by seeking its
essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first,
but it will emerge in the end from the new image that I will
have obtained and will have a wider meaning, a more fully human
one."
"The artist has but one idea. He is born with it and spends
a lifetime developing it and making it breathe. I basically work
without theory. I am aware only of the forces I use, and I move
along the course of the picture's creation, pushed
by an idea that I come to know only gradually as it develops."
"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches
of a tree so that it will grow better."
"We must see all life as if we were children."
"As I create these colored cutouts, it seems to me that
I advance joyfully to meet whatever awaits. I do not believe I
have ever experienced such peace and harmony as in making these
cutout papers."
"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works
to have the light joyousness of springtime, which never lets anyone
suspect the labors it has cost me..."
"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage
of permanence."
"I do not literally paint the table, but the emotion it
produces on me..."
"Exactitude is not truth."
"Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct
carving."
"Seek the strongest Color effect possible...the content
is of no importance."
"In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cezanne that i owe
the most."
"The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt
of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function
of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express
the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original
reaction."
"Truth and Reality in art do not arise until you no longer
understand what you are doing and are capable of but neverthelass
sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance."
"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermillion goldfish."
"creativity takes courage."
"A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence
of past generations is digging his own grave."
"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."
"My curves are not crazy"
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"In the end, there is only Matisse." -Picasso
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