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Portrait/LPC
Art, to
be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we
should ignore the claims of posterity, but that we should seek to enjoy the
present more. It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but
that we should try and assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish
conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality…
There
should be a dynamic nature to one’s philosophy, which places more stress on the
process through which perfection is sought rather than the attainment of
perfection itself. True beauty lies in the incomplete. It is left for each
individual to complete the picture and, in so doing, obtain true beauty, a beauty which is as unique as each individual. The virility of life and art lay
in its possibilities for growth, not in achievement. It is the expression of
each individual’s imagination which is to be sought, not the conformity of
things symmetrical, which suggests completion or worse repetition. Uniformity
of design in life and art proves fatal to the freshness of imagination.
