Art · Reflection
HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC ~ ON NEWNESS IN ART
17 February 2011
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new.. they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves.. novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only.. making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Photo Maurice Guibert (1893)
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