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Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote or whatnot, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

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... Every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.

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Art is no longer a purely visual experience.. it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature... the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis
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Born: November 25, 1870
Died: November 13, 1943 (aged 72)
Bio: Maurice Denis was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.
Known for:
  1. The Road to Calvary (1889)
  2. The Offertory at Calvary (1890)
  3. Homage to Cézanne (1900)

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