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Quote by Henri Matisse
Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these valu

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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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. – Henri Matisse

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? – Paul Cezanne

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. – Orson Welles

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Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics arent necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. – Jerry Saltz

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