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The subjects are unimportant. The most important thing in art, I think, is to give a message to your senses, not your intellect.
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The quote says that the topic or subject shown in an artwork matters less than the experience it creates. Its strongest effect should reach the senses—through what you see, hear, or otherwise feel—rather than depend mainly on intellectual analysis. In this view, art communicates through direct sensation before it is understood through ideas.
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