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Henri Matisse Quotes

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Henri Matisse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: french
Birth: December 31, 1869 - November 3, 1954

Topics

Nature Walk Beginning Yourself Start

I don't micromanage, but I do care deeply about every product we make. Every one goes through me, and I try most of our products before they go to market, including our John Paul Pet flea and tick shampoo. If I don't like it, it's not coming out.

John Paul DeJoria

Pet Me Care Go Try Out

I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.

Michael Eric Dyson

Life Brother People Mind Me Sexy

As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.

John Wells

Family Yourself Child Think Someone

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.

Tracy Hickman

History Society Think Interesting

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Roger Daltrey

Life Today Moon Think You Early

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Think I Think Personalities Addictive

Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

Dinesh Paliwal

Good Business Conflict Story Place

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

Denis Villeneuve

Women Art Me Control World Shadows

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Doug Liman

People Me Action Thought Dumb Film

I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of thinking about the world primarily in terms of concepts and words rather than mathematical formulas.

Deborah Harkness

Words Me World Thinking Magic New

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Christina Aguilera

Love More First Two First Love Big

I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses, but they were actually from Flatbush, Brooklyn. They would play duchesses, and I would play Cecil Beaton.

William Klein

Me Fashion Brooklyn Play Joke Being