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I sought refuge in my schoolbooks, among the flowers of Greek poetry, or the magical figures of geometry.

— Jean Metzinger

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Art belongs to the domain of the unreal and it is only when people try to make a reality of it that it falls apart.

It should be said that such an art would be neither more false nor more true than classical art.

My conviction was justified: art, that which lasts, is based on mathematics.

The house was filled with the piano and violin. I turned towards the art of painting.

I learned that Cézanne's success was not preventing the Neo-Impressionists from getting support. My knowledge of their technique was entirely literary.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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