Quote by Henri Matisse
Exactitude is not truth. - Henri Matisse

Exactitude is not truth. – Henri Matisse

Other quotes by Henri Matisse

Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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Art
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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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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. – J. Edgar Hoover

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Truth

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Truth

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. – William Butler Yeats

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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. – William Shatner

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Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, thats another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. – Jennifer M. Granholm

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. – Lord Dewar

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