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"The course of a spatially conceived line developsfrom different positions ina multitude of planes."
Hans Hofmann
"...I think that the space in which we live and act isnot what is treated in art at all. The harmoniouslyorganized space in picture is not experiential spaceknown by sight and touch, by free motion and restraint,far and near sounds, voices lost or re-echoed. It is anentirely visual affair, for touch and hearing andmuscular action it does not exist. For them there is theflat canvas relatively small or cool black wall, wherefor the eye there is deep fixed space full of shapes.This purely visual space is an illusion, for our sensoryexperiences do not agree on it in their report. Pictorialspace is not only organized by means of color (includingblack and white and the gamut of grays between them), itis created; without the organizing shapes, it is simplynot there. Like space, behind the surface of the mirror,it is what the physicists call virtual space-- anintangible image."
Suzanne Langer
Feeling and Form
"The barrenness that appears is an exposing.It is not part of what is absent, a haltFor farewells, a sad hanging on for the remembrances.It is a coming on and a coming forth...
Wallace Stevens
from "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
We should let Shi Tao have the last word:
"All painting comes from the understanding mind. If the artist fails tounderstand the inner law and catches (only) the outward gestures, he has notgrasped the underlying principle of the one stroke."
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