“I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.”
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On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
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This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
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This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
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