"A colourist makes his presence known even in……" — Henri Matisse
"A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing."
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Henri Matisse
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182 Quotes by Henri Matisse
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There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that…
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
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Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
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Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
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The main function of color should be to serve expression.
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
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It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
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Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of…
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the…
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Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's…
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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a…
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the…
— Charles Dickens
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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must,…
— Unknown Author
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and…
— Judith Wright
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will…
— Michael Faraday
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum,…
— Harry Houdini
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Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite…
— Harry Houdini
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Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at…
— Madonna Ciccone
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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
— Gunter Grass
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A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.
— Marianne Boruch
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The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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