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But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. ↗

— Dominique De Menil

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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent. ↗

— Mark Rothko

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It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. ↗

— Mark Rothko

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