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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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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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Nature
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Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. – Henri Matisse

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Imagination
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All nature is but art unknown to thee. – Alexander Pope

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe

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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. – Robert Indiana

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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. – Paul Tillich

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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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