"Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it."
"Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods."
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Source: David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage
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