"Creativity takes courage."
-Henri Matisse
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"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.“
-Henri Matisse
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"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back."
-Henri Matisse
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"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope."
-Henri Matisse
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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
-Henri Matisse
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"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
-Henri Matisse
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"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."
-Henri Matisse
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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