“The importance of an artist is to be measured by the number of new signs he has introduced into the language of art…It was absolutely necessary that I prepare, by the search for signs, for a new development in my life as a painter…Perhaps after all I believe, without being aware of it, in a second life…some paradise where I shall paint frescoes…” – Matisse to Aragon
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