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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.


Henri Matisse

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HENRI POINCARE To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC • When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI