abstract painting

is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone, but it is a kind of incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

A painting or sculpture not modeled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone. . . but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses. (Hans Jean Arp)

is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

*If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

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