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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.

— Pablo Picasso

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It takes a very long time to become young.

For a long time I limited myself to one color — as a form of discipline.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Even the signature of Kodra is a work of art.

When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.

after the death of Matisse (1954)

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