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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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