"Through art alone we are able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees or a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscape would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinity space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance."
-- an excerpt taken from the new book
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In search of Lost Time' by Eric Karpeles.
3 comments:
hulluvan image to go with a helluva quote!
ps: is "helluvan" a word? (well, i guess it is now.)
pps: "plogings" is this comment's captcha. as in: "i wish i could find a gentler way of scraping the plogings out from between your toenails."
hellava hulluvan replaces hooligan as plogings makes my cuticles curl.
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