"The energy within you is stronger than ever……" — Henri Matisse
"The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ..."
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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 Compressed Quotes
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and…
— Henri Matisse
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Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version…
— Alicia Ostriker
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter…
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Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No…
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Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the…
— Murray Rothbard
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down…
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