Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
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I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.
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Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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One eye sees, the other feels.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
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Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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