Henri Matisse
Related Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f... SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS JAMES ALLEN An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast... PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast... AUGUSTE RENOIR ABRAHAM MASLOW ABRAHAM MASLOW KATE CHOPIN He must watch out for himself because they will try to kill him too. AMATZIA BARAM A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe... ABRAHAM H. MASLOW KATE CHOPIN ALEXIS CARREL ROBERT E. SHERWOOD THOMAS PAINE THOMAS PAINE THOMAS PAINE THOMAS PAINE He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer... SAINT IGNATIUS THOMAS PAINE THOMAS ADAMS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GEORG GRODDECK He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has... STEVEN L. SHEPPARD THOMAS HOBBES F. SIONIL JOSE G. K. CHESTERTON A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesse... KINGSLEY GEORGE SARAH BERNHARDT must disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which his or her impartiality might reasonably... MARTIN COHEN PAUL CEZANNE OSHO The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tel... GERALD MOOR SUNDAY ADELAJA An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A profession... BEN SHAHN THOMAS FULLER AGATHA CHRISTIE ERIC HOFFER SIR WALTER SCOTT SUNDAY ADELAJA The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he m... JOHN KEEGAN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, wh... JACOB EPSTEIN JEAN-PAUL SARTRE SAMUEL BUTLER (1) HENRY MILLER HENRY MILLER OSCAR WILDE JAMES JOYCE E. M. CIORAN EMILE M. CIORAN JOHN PIPER PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ELIZABETH GASKELL NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI DIETRICH BONHOEFFER JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT VANCE HAVNER The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him do... GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI IMMANUEL KANT When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is... MAX ERNST KARL KRAUS SAMUEL JOHNSON If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then... AMEN MUFFLER PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RUDOLF STEINER GEORGE HERBERT GEORGE HERBERT He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will lear... CHINESE PROVERB CARL GUSTAV JUNG ROBIN HOBB AUGUSTE RODIN The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ... REMY DE GOURMONT SAMUEL JOHNSON PIET MONDRIAN AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT OSWALD CHAMBERS LUCIANO PAVAROTTI JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... JOSEPH M. DODGE Mladic is within the reach of the government in Belgrade and we cannot wait anymore for him to surre... FLORENCE HARTMAN T. S. ELIOT T.S. ELIOT JAMES CASH PENNEY The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to ta... PRICILLA ELFREY The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to ta... PRISCILLA ELFREY ERNEST HOLMES GERMAN PROVERB FAY WRAY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The smear artist reveals himself by his disparate treatment of people and situations. He drapes hims... SHARYL ATTKISSON ROBERT BADEN-POWELL SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not... BRUNO DUMONT FRANK HERBERT
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HENRI COANDA HENRI POINCARE HENRI BERGSON ROBERT HENRI HENRI NOUWEN Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. HENRI ROUSSEAU HENRI NOUWEN Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no mor... HENRI POINCAR HENRI NOUWEN HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI POINCARE If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne. HENRI ESTIENNE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes... HENRI POINCARé HENRI NOUWEN HENRI DELACROIX HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI POINCARE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI BECQUEREL HENRI ALAIN HENRI BERGSON ROBERT HENRI HENRI LEFEBVRE HENRI LEFEBVRE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. HENRI QUEUILLE If youth knew; if age could. HENRI ESTIENNE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI BERGSON ROBERT HENRI HENRI POINCARE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This... HENRI COANDA HENRI NOUWEN HENRI BERGSON HENRI POINCARE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI POINCARE HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI BERGSON Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m... HENRI POINCARé ROBERT HENRI HENRI BERGSON HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI POINCARE HENRI BERGSON HENRI BERGSON HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN HENRI NOUWEN I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol... HENRI BARBUSSE HENRI POINCARE The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam... 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A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak ... 
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe... 
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at pe... 
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... 
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... 
To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he i... 
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if ... 
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola... 
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol... 
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass. 
The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior m... 
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo... 
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... 
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th... 
To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if th... 
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity. 
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, t... 
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings... 
He must become crazy like you, he must be a fool, he must allow you to laugh at him. Then you will n... 
A man must work on himself, his resolution and will to win spirit 
He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him 
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, H... 
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. 
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. 
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the... 
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... 
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet di... 
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit... 
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut... 
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he ... 
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain... 
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain... 
The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the lea... 
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl... 
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har... 
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l... 
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then... 
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist,... 
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. 
...[M]an and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be a... 
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adher... 
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own... 
...What are numbers knit 
He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive 
Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of h... 
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. 
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. 
The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat... 
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will 
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ... 
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. 
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt... 
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. H... 
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He g... 
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o... 
If this man can express himself with the soul and the willpower that he has, even in singing, he cer... 
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... 
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences... 
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences... 
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it. 
Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power--so long as i... 
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth 
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face ... 
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well,... 
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--... 
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou... 
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou... 
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin... 
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. 
Creativity takes courage. 
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the es... 
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need ... 
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... 
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that some... 
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all tha... 
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. 
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to th... 
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. 
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l... 
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes... 
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. 
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly 
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. 
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. 
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new... 
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from w... 
In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love. 
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. 
Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m... 
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...