Exactitude is not truth.
Je ne peins pas les choses. Je ne peins que les différences entre les choses.
Artists
Henri Matisse
Born in 1869 in northern France, Matisse led the Fauvist revolution and spent his career liberating color from descriptive duty. His late paper cutouts distill decades of exploration into pure form and hue.
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I do not wish to be called divine while alive.
-- Titian
Colors are the smiles of nature.
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I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.
-- El Greco
Color is my daily obsession, my joy and my torment.
-- Claude Monet
I wish I had been born blind and then recovered my sight, so I could paint without knowing what the objects before me were.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily Kandinsky