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out of desire and despair
“Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.”
Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery/Aleksandra88
September 17, 2012 in Quotes | Permalink
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