“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”– Henri Matisse Related Quotes “Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”– Jerry Saltz “The history of art is the history of revivals.”– Samuel Butler “Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”– Jonathan Swift