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Quote by Henri Matisse
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nat

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. – Henri Matisse

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Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. – Henri Matisse

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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. – Clarence Day

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. – William Blake

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Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th

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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. – Stephen Hawking

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