"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them."
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Source: Letters of the great artists from Blake to Pollock. Book by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 256, 1963.
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