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• The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,…
• Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
• Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…
• Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
• It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it…

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