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Quote by Henri Matisse
Drawing is putting a line round an idea. - Henri Matisse

Drawing is putting a line round an idea. – Henri Matisse

Other quotes by Henri Matisse

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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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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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Ideas
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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Ideas

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso

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Ideas

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody – Sarah Bernhardt

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Ideas

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. – Ralph Bunche

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Ideas

Random Quotes

Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that’s what my grandma taught me. – Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Jennie

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Brothers

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musicians music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. – Charles de Lint

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Music

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke, 16 May 1699

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Thinking

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. – Montesquieu

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Patriotism