"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
— Henri Matisse

January 1, 1970

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As quoted by in the review of 'The Drawings of Henri Matisse', exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, by Theodore F Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985)