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'...Abstraction is a luxury that has been left to the present day to exploit. It is a luxury just as any single ideal is, and like a single ideal it should be approached all the time, but not pre-supposed all the time. To pre-suppose it always, if you you are a painter, is to paint the same picture always: or else to give up painting altogether because there is nothing left to paint...' Extract from 'Abstraction on the Beach' John Piper 1938 |