Henri Matisse Quote
It is only after years of preparation that the young [artist] should touch color — not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
As quoted by Theodore F. Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985) - posthumous, after 1954
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