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Henri Matisse5 quotes
Creativity takes courage. — Henri MatisseRenoir 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. — Henri Matisse · 1941What 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. — Henri Matisse · 1908I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting. — Henri Matisse · 1913What 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. — Henri Matisse · 1908