Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Creativity, Independent, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Essentials, Mind, Prayer, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Black And White, Color, Queens, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
When I paint green, it doesn’t mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn’t mean sky. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Color, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Eye, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Freedom, Love, Running, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Blood, Color, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
The artist begins with a vision – a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Beautiful, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Courage, Optimistic, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Happiness, Work, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
When you’re out of will power you call on stubbornness, that’s the trick. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Funny, Willpower, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, Color, Joy, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Color, Rainbow, Simple, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Energy, Stronger, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024February 5, 2024, Henri Matisse, Essentials, Form, Simplicity, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn’t build upon hatred, but upon love. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Hatred, Parasites, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Artist, Satisfaction, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L’exactitude n’est pas la verite.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Truth, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, Creating, Effort, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Drawing, Ideas, precision, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, Expression, Funny, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
…I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Art, Driven, Ideas, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
The residuum of another’s expression can never be related to one’s own feeling. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Henri Matisse, Expression, Feelings, Imitation, 0 - Henri Matisse Copy
The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is. - Eckhart Tolle Author · Germany
Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service. - Radhanath Swami Spiritual leader and teacher
If you’re going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule. - Barbara Jordan American Politician · USA
You can’t go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it. - Mick Farren Musician and writer · United Kingdom
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot. - Bram Cohen Computer programmer
How, frequently, some murder’d man appear’d, To tell his wife and children who had done it. - Bill Vaughan Author · Canada
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. - Charles Sanders Peirce Philosopher · USA
No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife. - Vera Farmiga Actress · USA
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don’t know how to wade through manure. - Melina Marchetta Author · Australia
