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Matisse on art

17 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Exactitude is not truth.

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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

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The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.


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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime, which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me….

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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

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Why have I never been bored? For more than fifty years I have never ceased to work.

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