Exactitude Quote by Henri Matisse Download Open image “Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]” — Henri Matisse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exactitude Truth
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image