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A Visitor to Earth
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A different fervor, grave and delicate, moves in the daylight of his pictures. He is like a visitor to earth, reflecting on distances, gravity and positions of essential forms.
— Philip Guston on Piero della Francesca
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Do you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by side? Art is a creation for the eye and can only be hinted at with words…
I make paintings because the moon is larger than my imagination, and because I have a small handful of words in my vocabulary.
I write because acrobats foolishly live only with acrobats, and because I keep my unattached feelings in a large iron bucket.
I walk everywhere in circles and keep all these tidy little habits in a velvet-lined boîte à bijoux scented with violets, precisely because our world is so logical and kind. Its beautiful sanity astonishes me.
— Edgar Soberon
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To paint is to love again. It’s only when we look with eyes of love that we see as the painter sees. His is a love, moreover, which is free of possessiveness. What the painter sees he is duty-bound to share.
— Henry Miller
