Fraiche sur des Lits de Violettes (Fresh on Beds of Violets)

Et je me reposerai enfin dans le rien que je convoite (And I will Rest at Last with Nothing I Covet)

Semblable à un chef de guerre de seize ans (Like a Warlord of Sixteen)

Dors, Dormeuse aux Longs Cils (Sleep, Sleeper with Long Eyelashes)

Un Meuglement Different des Autres (A Moo Different from Others)

J’irai à ce que j’ai voulu, sans fierté comme sans remords (I go to what I wanted, as much without pride as without remorse)

Elle y pose sa joue, elle l’embrasse (She Lays Her Cheek, She Kisses)

Ténèbres de moi-meme, je m’abandonne à vous (Darkness of Myself, I Surrender to You)

Emportes jusqu’aux Constellations (Take it Up to the Constellations)

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Pasiphaé: Chant de Minos (Les Crétois) by H. de Montherlant 

Henri Matisse, 1944

“Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.”
-Henri Matisse

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