“The painting’s world is only explicable in the sense that it is what you’re looking at. That actual experience is happening to you as you look at the painting. That’s why painters make paintings: to have you be in that place.” -Brice Marden, Cold Mountain …
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“How you look at a painting physically is very important. A good way to approach a painting is to look at it from a distance roughly equivalent to its height, then double that distance, then go back and look at it in detail whwere you can begin to answer the questions you ’ve posed at …
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