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" There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. "
Mark Rothko
Nothing
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" Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "
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" If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. "
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