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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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