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

— Henri Matisse

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A picture must possess a real power to generate light.. ..for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Matisse (1984)

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.

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

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..

Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine.

Notes of a Painter (1908)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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