Carolina QuotesIt is Cezanne's feeling that determined the form of his pictorial structure. It is his pictorial structure that gives off his feeling. If all his pictorial structures were to disappear from the world, so would a certain feeling..
Robert Motherwell Connected to the Carolinas
Source
pp. 38-39
- work
- 'Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946)
- year
- 1946
- locator
- pp. 38-39
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