I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors that it has cost.
Fauvist painter
I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors that it has cost.
Fauvist painter
Statement on his artistic process and desired effect.
1948 (from a letter to Henry Clifford)
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