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Effort Quotes by Henri Matisse
- It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being,…
- Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
- The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything…
- The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
- An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to…
- I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the…
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- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister