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We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.


Henri Rousseau

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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 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 I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE 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 Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE