James Whistler said that he ‘mixed his paint with his brain’.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903), Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket,
1875
Oil on panel, 60.2 x 46.7 cm, Collection Detroit Institute of Arts
Art transports us from the world of man’s activity to a
world of aestetic exalation. For a moment we are shut off from human interest;
our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of
life. – Clive Bell (1881-1964) ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’ /1914
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