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“ [Matisse] said his portraits uncovered much that he could not have suspected at the start. ‘To sum up, I work without a theory [italics his], I am aware primarily of the forces involved, and find myself driven forward by an idea which I can really only grasp little by little as it grows with the picture.’
Spurling, Hilary. “Preface.” The Unknown Matisse. New York: Knopf, 1988: xix.
