Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1912 (Special number))

HENRI MATISSE

ONE was quite certain that for a long part of his being one being liv-
ing he had been trying to be certain that he was wrong in doing
what he was doing and then when he could not come to be certain
that he had been wrong in doing what he had been doing, when he had com-
pletely convinced himself that he would not come to be certain that he had
been wrong in doing what he had been doing he was really certain then that
he was a great one and he certainly was a great one. Certainly every one
could be certain of this thing that this one is a great one.
Some said of him, when anybody believed in him they did not then
believe in any other one. Certainly some said this of him.
He certainly very clearly expressed something. Some said that he did
not clearly express anything. Some were certain that he expressed some-
thing very clearly and some of such of them said that he would have been
a greater one if he had not been one so clearly expressing what he was ex-
pressing. Some said he was not clearly expressing what he was expressing
and some of such of them said that the greatness of struggling which was not
clear expression made of him one being a completely great one.
Some said of him that he was greatly expressing something struggling.
Some said of him that he was not greatly expressing something struggling.
He certainly was clearly expressing something, certainly sometime any
one might come to know that of him. Very many did come to know it of him
that he was clearly expressing what he was expressing. He was a great one.
Any one might come to know that of him. Very many did come to know that
of him. Some who came to know that of him, that he was a great one, that
he was clearly expressing something, came then to be certain that he was not
greatly expressing something being struggling. Certainly he was expressing
something being struggling. Any one could be certain that he was expressing
something being struggling. Some were certain that he was greatly expressing
this thing. Some were certain that he was not greatly expressing this thing.
Every one could come to be certain that he was a great man. Any one could
come to be certain that he was clearly expressing something.
Some certainly were wanting to be needing to be doing what he was doing,
that is clearly expressing something. Certainly they were willing to be want-
ing to be a great one. They were, that is some of them, were not wanting
to be needing expressing anything being struggling. And certainly he was
one not greatly expressing something being struggling, he was a great one,
he was clearly expressing something. Some were wanting to be doing what
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