It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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