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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2003/04

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:00:02 -0500

"Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are
condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of his

imagination and=E2=80=94with a single glance=E2=80=94have his soul invaded
by the most
profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one

instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Li
ke
music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonio
us
colors correspond to the harmonies of sound. But in painting a unity is
obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one
another, so that the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if it wants
to
reunite the end with the beginning. The ear is actually a sense inferior to

the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at a time, whereas the

sight takes in everything and simultaneously simplifies it at will."

-Paul Gauguin (1848=E2=80=931903) French artist
Notes Synthetiques (1888)