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

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

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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. – Robert Hughes

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that its never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever. – Jerry Saltz

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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. – C. S. Lewis

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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different. – Jonathan Sacks

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