I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
Henri MatisseYou 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.
Henri MatisseSi je crois en Dieu? Oui, quand je travaille. Quand je suis soumis et modeste, je me sens tellement aidé par quelqu'un qui me fait faire des choses qui me surpassent.
Henri MatisseYou must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
Henri MatisseThe importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
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I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a
painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
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I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
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