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Inspirational Quotes by Henri Matisse
- Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
- Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
- Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
- It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
- A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
- Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
- Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
- I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
- What I dream of is an art of balance.
- For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
- If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.
- I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
- ...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
- Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
- What I am after, above all, is expression.
- Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
- It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
- Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
- The truly original artist invents his own signs.
- A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.
- Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been…
- The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
- Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
- Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
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