In Matisse's cut-outs, every shape is lovingly made; the canvas is entirely made of beings which are loved.

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• Matisse's drawing actions are dominated by concern for the overall balance, coherence, and form of the whole, not by particular details.claim0.835
  Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.
• Matisse develops latent white face-center on canvas through dark brush stroke using contrast and positive space to differentiate and intensify existing structure.finding0.816
  Example of harmony-seeking computation in artistic creation where painter recognizes and develops inherent latent centers.
• Matisse's painting process is exactly the kind of step-by-step adaptation with feedback: each brushstroke is a response to the actual emerging painting, making it continuously better.claim0.806
  The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.780
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• The great life in works by Matisse and van Gogh is somewhat misleading because the same feeling of life can occur in a dirty hut or slum.claim0.768
  Warns against equating life only with high art; ordinariness can have equal life.
• The Matisse drawing has the strongest field of centers among the three compared 20th-century artworks and correspondingly the deepest personal feelingclaim0.767
  Demonstrates the correlation between field-of-centers strength and personal feeling using three famous drawings
• In the ship painting, the wholeness generated the details; details were created only to recreate the living wholeness and its light.claim0.766
  Description of the author's painting process as a microcosm of a living process.
• Matisse self-portrait wholenessconcept0.763
  Four drawings of Matisse's face with different features share the same underlying wholeness, demonstrating that character is a global structure.