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"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."


"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."


"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."


"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received."


"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."


"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."


"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."


"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."


"Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors."
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