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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. – Jerry Saltz

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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. – Jerry Saltz

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Its great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. – Jerry Saltz

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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

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Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of Californias open space and environmental beauty. – Adam Schiff

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I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. – Miuccia Prada

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The perception of beauty is a moral test. – Henry David Thoreau

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