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.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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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.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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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.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
- Henri Matisse - In Art
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse - In Nature
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