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Henri Matisse Quotes

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Henri Matisse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God Prayer Mind Believe Think Know

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

Joan Didion

Spring Cold Friends Late Find Know

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

Jenna Dewan

Time Myself You Person Way More

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

Future Earth Future Generations Whom

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State's front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn't think that I would end up there.

Stephen Curry

People Me Think End Said Golden

Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

Forgiveness Blessing Yourself Gift

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

Luke Harding

I Am War Fashion Cold End Surprise

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

Jose Marti

Simple Talent Busy Dignity Difficult

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

Colin Trevorrow

Action You Three Pieces Get Set

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

Anne Wojcicki

Think Learn You Information Knowing

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

William Peter Blatty

Faith Me Research Well Much Novel

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time Letters Returning Within Bow

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Pete Hamill

Ambition Newspaper Kid Wanted Comics