*A work of art is an aesthetic object before it is a historical document.
*The business of the art historian is to illuminate works of art, not write history with art.
No underestimating how much this changed my view of art.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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this is so true.
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