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Matisse:
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Interviewer:
But if one hasn't always emotion. What then?
Matisse:
Do not paint. When I came in here to work this morning I had no emotion, so I took a horseback ride. When I returned I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.
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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
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You 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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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
Henri Matisse
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Born:
December 31, 1869
Died:
November 3, 1954
(aged 84)
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