Friday, August 17, 2007

Bonnard said that "they just don't know how to see"


People who themselves don't know how to see fail to grasp the significance of the distinctions one makes between slavish imitation of current forms verses a playful and innovative use of the past. In the past one finds something that is always new. On finds permanent human catgories of being that are not actually present in all eras but can be potentially so.

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Cezanne, still life of pears (NGA)