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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

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. – Henri Matisse

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Art
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Ideas
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. – Michael Leboeuf

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Ideas

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

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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

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

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