Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Henri Matisse

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Exactitude is not truth.

Henri Matisse

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Another word for creativity is courage.

Henri Matisse

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Time extracts various values from a painter's 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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To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Henri Matisse

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Nothing can be accomplished without love.

Henri Matisse

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illumination the fog that surround

Henri Matisse

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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Henri Matisse

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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Henri Matisse

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