Pictures

Once when a lady was visiting the painter Matisse in his studio, she remarked 'But surely, the arm of this woman is much too long!' Matisse replied politely 'Madame, you are mistaken. This is not a woman; this is a picture.'

~ from Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford ~



Henri Matisse. Purple Robe and Anemones. 1937. The Baltimore Museum of Art.