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Things Quotes by Henri Matisse
- From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the…
- The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything…
- The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
- What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see…
- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
- There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
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