"A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere."
"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere."
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Source: Futurism edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.
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