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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.

Source: Quoted by Theodore F Wolff in review of The Drawings of Henri Matisse exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; in Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar 1985.
-- Henri Matisse, (Dec 31 1869-1954), French artist, author; He was pioneer of modern art of room interiors, vivid female nudes, and still-lifes, e.g., The Red Studio, 1911.

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