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you such frightful and curious examples.

Exactitude is not truth

Thus there is an inherent truth which must be disengaged from the outward appearance of the object to be represented. This is the only truth that matters.

Henri Matisse Venice May 1947

Walter Crane quoted NY Times Book review 12-4-83 p 78

"children don't want to bother about the dimensions. They can accept symbolic representations. They themselves employ drawing ... as a kind of picture writing."

Not content with visible everyday forms of ugliness, he discovered mysterious ones and, if necessary, invented others, on the pretense of painting a young woman he took delight in making a caricature.

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And deformation was neither lighthearted nor gross but deliberate and sure touch of a masters executions.

Description of Toulouse-Latrec in a novel by Hughes Rebell "La Câlineus" 1898

quoted in La revue blanche catalogue 1983

12-16-83

The Meaning of Celebrity by Barbara Goldsmith

NY times magazine Dec 4, 83 p 75

"We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions as vivid, so persuasive, so persuasive, so realistic, that they can live in them" - Daniel J. Boorstein

In today's highly technological world, reality has become a pallid substitute for the image reality we fabricate for ourselves, which in turn intensifies our addiction to the artificial.

p 76

Celebrity worship ... is directly traceable to the basic and continuing need for