I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Ce que je rêve, c'est un art d'équilibre, de pureté, de tranquillité, sans sujet inquiétant ou préoccupant, qui soit, pour tout travailleur cérébral, un lénifiant, un calmant.
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Henri Matisse
Born in 1869 in northern France, Matisse led the Fauvist revolution and spent his career liberating color from descriptive duty. His late paper cutouts distill decades of exploration into pure form and hue.
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