Matisse

Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs

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“The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.”
 
― Henri Matisse

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray

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“Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations.”

Henri Matisse; Statement on Photography, 1908

The frayed tassels of the well-worn bookmarks of my treasured Henri Matisse: a novel by Louis Aragon, which you will have seen recently residing on my library shelf.

 

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