Georges Vantongerloo quotes
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“There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.”
-- Georges VantongerlooSource : Georges Vantongerloo (1948). “Paintings, sculptures, reflections”
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“One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.”
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“I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.”
-- Georges Vantongerloo
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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