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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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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Happiness
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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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Art
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert

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[I]t was a hymn to the beauty of the human form… and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. – Fran Lebowitz

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. – Constantin Stanislavski

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