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Figures Quotes by Henri Matisse
- What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.
- When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
- Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts…
- It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
- My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my…
- The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays…
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