Henri Matisse

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Creativity takes courage.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Artist to Artist: Inspiration & Advice from Artists Past & Present, written by Clint Brown. Jackson Creek Press, 1998.

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Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died.

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Matisse, Henri. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview. Interviewed by Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, translated by Chris Miller. Getty Publications, 2013, p. 90.

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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

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Matisse, Henri. "Notes d'un peintre [Notes of a Painter]." Le Grande Revue, 25 Dec. 1908.

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Matisse, Henri. "Notes of a Painter." Matisse on Art, translated and edited by Jack Flam. University of California Press, 1995, ch. 2.

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I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in "Henri Matisse." Les Cahiers d'aujourd'hui, written by Marcel Sembat. Paris: George Besson, 1913, no. 4.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Matisse the Master, written by Hilary Spurling. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2006.

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.