You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the l… - Henri Matisse
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist. Particularly known for his striking use of colour, Matisse is one of the very few indisputable giants of modern art, alongside Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky.
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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
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Henri Emile Benoît Matisse
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Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
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Anri Matiss
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
In a picture every part will be visible and will play the role conferred upon it, be it principal or secondary. All that is not useful in the picture is detrimental.
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Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.
