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Color Is The Keyboard. The Eye Is The Hammer. The Soul Is The Piano, With Its Many Strings.

The Artist Is Not A 'sunday Child' For Whom Everything Immediately Succeeds. He Does Not Have The Right To Live Without Duty. The Task That Is Assigned To Him Is Painful, It Is A Heavy Cross For Him To Bear.

With Few Exceptions, Music Has Been For Some Centuries The Art Which Has Devoted Itself Not To The Reproduction Of Natural Phenomena, But Rather To The Expression Of The Artist's Soul, In Musical Sound.

In Their Pursuit Of The Same Supreme End, Matisse And Picasso Stand Side By Side, Matisse Representing Color And Picasso Form.

In Every Painting A Whole Is Mysteriously Enclosed, A Whole Life Of Tortures, Doubts, Of Hours Of Enthusiasm And Inspiration.