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The little review (8 (1922), 2)

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Titel:: The little review

Untertitel:: quarterly journal of art and letters

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschrift

Signatur:: DADA III:11

Persistenter Identifier:: 24862

Erscheinungsort:: New York

Verlag:: The little review

Sprache:: Englisch

ISSN:: 0000-0000

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Titel:: The little review

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschriftenband

Signatur:: DADA III:11:8:2

Persistenter Identifier:: 24985

Bandzählung:: 8 (1922), 2

Erscheinungsort:: Zürich

Ausgabenbezeichnung:: [Electronic ed.]

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Titel:: Aesthetic meditations

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschrift

Strukturtyp:: Kapitel

Autor:: Apollinaire, Guillaume

9 The root, the stalk and the flower of the lily show the progress of purity to its symbolic bloom. ♦ ♦ ♦ All bodies are equal before the light and their modifications come from this luminous power which moulds them according to its will. We do not know all the colours, and each man invents new ones. But the painter must, above all, become himself the spectator of his own divinity, and the pictures which he offers to the admiration of men will confer upon them also the glory of exercising for the moment their own divinity. For this it is necessary to embrace at a glance the past, pres ent and future. The canvas should present that essential unity which alone can produce ecstacy. Then, nothing transient will be dashed off at random. We will not suddenly be turning backwards. Free spectators, we will not give up our life because of our curiosity. The salt smugglers of appearances will not be able to pass our statues of salt before the custom house of reason. We will not go astray in the unknown future, which, separated from eternity, is only a word designed to tempt man. We will not exhaust ourselves seizing the too fugitive present, for fashion after all can only be for the artist the mask of death. ♦ ♦ ♦ The picture will exist inevitably. The vision will be entire, complete, and its infinity, instead of marking an imperfection, will only bring out the relation between a new creature and a new creator, only this and nothing more. Otherwise there will be no unity, and the connection which the different points of the canvas have with different geniuses, with different objects, with different lights, will show only a multiplicity of inharmonious dissimilarities. For, if there can be an infinite number of creatures, each one attesting its creator, with no creation to block the extent of those

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