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Upon Quotes by Henri Matisse
- 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…
- A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm…
- All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in…
- Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been…
- Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
- A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...
- I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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