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Henri Matisse Quotes

French - Artist | December 31, 1869 - November 3, 1954

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Nature Flowers Want Always See Who

Creativity takes courage.

Courage Creativity Takes

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.

Good Art Balance Mind Influence

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Work Good Happiness Day Fog Us

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Art Drawing Gesture Advantage Like

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Tree Grow Better Will Branches Just

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Vision Youth World New Would Like

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Creative Rose Roses Forget Nothing

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.

Love Love Is Learn You Desire Drink

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.

Work Time Art Picture Values More

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Art Soul Newspaper Impressionism

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

Love Winner Away Who Runs

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