Cutouts Matisse Quotes & Sayings

Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches. — Paul Auster

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. — Oscar Wilde

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence. — Toni Sorenson

Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion. — Bruno Mars

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. — Isaac D'Israeli

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't. — Dorothy Koomson

Jesus is not honored most by the exploration of various christologies, any more than your wife would be honored by your indecision concerning her character. Jesus is honored by our knowing and treasuring him for who he really is. He is a real person. A fact. A fixed, unchanging reality in the universe, independent of our feelings. Our feelings about him do not make him what he is. Our feelings about him reflect the value of what we think he has. And if our knowledge of him is wrong, to that degree our enjoyment of him will be no honor to the real Jesus. Our joy displays his glory when it's a reflex of seeing him for who he really is. — John Piper

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence. — Henri Matisse

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness. — Thomas Hughes

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. — Robert Ardrey

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth? — Peter Carey

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. — George Orwell

The Internet at that time was this big, exciting place where you could anonymously spill your guts about gender and discomfort and heteronormativity and how weird male privilege felt and lots of other things, except back then she didn't really have language for it so she just went like: everything sucks and I am totally sad. Just over and over and over and over, with minor variations and the occasional cuss word. — Imogen Binnie