"Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven……" — Henri Matisse
"Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?"
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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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More Lagoons Quotes
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite…
— James A. Michener
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
— Jim Gerlach
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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons…
— Henry Timrod
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I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
— Benicio Del Toro
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Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.
— Christopher Atkins
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all…
— Ted Bell
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I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for…
— Jim Toomey
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I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South.…
— J D Salinger
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Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at…
— James M. Barrie
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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon…
— J. Maarten Troost
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