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" Jazz is rhythm and meaning. "
Henri Matisse
Jazz
Rhythm
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" Work cures everything. "
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" Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. "
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" I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. "
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" I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. "
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" I'm growing old, I delight in the past. "
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" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "
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" An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. "
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" It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. "
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" He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. "
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