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Emotion Quotes by Henri Matisse
- The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken…
- When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
- Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
- Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of…
- I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but…
- I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
- You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your…
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- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. — Sebastian Bach
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. — Ralph Bakshi
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams