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“Her fingers remembered the slow, careful work in the wood, with a quiet grief, that didn't diminish, but was manageable.”

Art Artist Grief And Loss

Book:The Matisse Stories

Source: The Matisse Stories

“A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.”

Book:The Virgin in the Garden

Source: The Virgin in the Garden

“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.”

Art Individual Identity Nation

Book:The Virgin in the Garden

Source: The Virgin in the Garden

“It is not flippant to see a painting in a predicament.”

Art Artist Painting

Book:The Matisse Stories

Source: The Matisse Stories

“Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].”

Book:The Virgin in the Garden

Source: The Virgin in the Garden

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