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  • A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

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    "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 413, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter. - Henri Matisse
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