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Quote by Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. – Henri Matisse

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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. – Henri Matisse

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Love
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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now Ive been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. – Henri Matisse

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power
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. – Kemal Ataturk

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I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. – Jane Campion

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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. – Golda Meir

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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. – Dwayne Johnson

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. – Claude Bernard

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Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. – Martina Navratilova

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