Branches Quote by Henri Matisse

“Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.”

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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

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To arrive is to be in prison.

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When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was…

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A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

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Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our…

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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…

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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect…

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The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

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One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

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My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

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[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

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In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.…

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The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under…

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Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in…

William Mountford

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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles…

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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it…

George Gissing

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

Byron White

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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

John Burroughs

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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same…

Antoine Lavoisier