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Receptively it [the work as human action] is limited by the limitations of the perceiving eye. The limitation of the eye is its inability to see even a small surface equally sharp at all points. The eye must "graze" over the surface, grasping sharply portion after portion, to convey them to the brain which collects and stores the impressions.

— Paul Klee Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)

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It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

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