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

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

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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. – 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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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It is useless to send armies against ideas. – George Brandes

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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. – Ron Brown

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