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— Walter J. Phillips"While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder."
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All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
— Henri Matisse
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
— Henri Matisse
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