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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
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unpublished letter, as quoted in Astract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 64

 

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