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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

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. – Henri Matisse

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design
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Henri Matisse
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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

Category:
Imagination
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Henri Matisse
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Ideas
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

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Ideas

We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. – Henry Block

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Ideas

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg

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Ideas

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. – Anais Nin

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing. – Rowan Atkinson

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funny

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. – Dr. Seuss

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funny

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905

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