"What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response."

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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.

— Henri Matisse