"Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is ex..." - Henri Matisse

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Source note: Official O'Keeffe Museum documentation

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Source note: Documented in Matisse on Art (1995) ed. Jack D. Flam, p.66

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Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Source note: Commonly attributed, specific source unclear

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