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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.


Robert Henri

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HENRI NOUWEN Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCAR L’art de vivre consiste en un subtil mélange entre lâcher prise et tenir bon.
HENRI LEWIS Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?
HENRI MATISSE