"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

12 November 2011

Inward.

Dürer, Portrait of Caspar Sturm, 1520


The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, and not the external manner and detail, is true reality.

- Aristotle

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