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

Other quotes by Henri Matisse

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back. – Henri Matisse

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Love
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. – 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

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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. – Ani DiFranco

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As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. – Albrecht Durer

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A picture is a poem without words. – Horace

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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. – Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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