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«I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.»
«Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?»
«The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion.»
«Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue»
«I have been no more than a medium, as it were.»
«To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.»
«These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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circus, crystallization, resulted, tales, The Circus, tones, vivid
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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Painting
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artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.»
«A picture must possess a real power to generate light [and] for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.»
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