I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more. John Fowles
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When people are in love, they collect memories. They collect moments, precious moments that connect them to each other. They create objects that reflect their love, or that help them remember their love, or that represent their memories of the love. We all do this when we fall in love. However, true art is a far more complex thing.

It is a living feeling. It is a painting that becomes a memory and then a moment for another person. The artist paints a picture of a moment and then paints another picture of the same moment, but different from the first one.

This second picture is always new, never the same as before. It is never finished or complete because the painters will always be adding to it and changing it and making it better all of her life long.

Source: The Collector

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