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Fine art is knowledge made visible. I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of real and existing things... an object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.
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