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Aphorisms corner

At every moment, an aphorism about art, beauty, the “visible”. These maxims and thoughts from the best writers or artists illustrate the spirit of the Imaginary Museum of Patagonia.

The sign signifies, while the form signifies itself.

Henri Focillon

The 4 founding aphorisms

When painters will have lost their science and the love of their tools, futile theories will appear. Unable to write their thoughts with forms and colours, they will formulate them with words and the writers will win over them. I am not talking about the true poet… but about the school supervisor who wants to explain a verse from Virgile.

Delacroix

In each work of art, the thought comes from the work; a work of art never comes from a thought.

Alain

The beautiful is superior to the sublime since it is permanent and is not satisfactory ; when the sublime is relative, transitory and violent.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Art is a wound which becomes light.

Georges Braque