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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.

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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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