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most important I began there and then to revalue experience, to understand what I was at—

The virtue of the improvisations is their placement in a world of new values—

their fault is their dislocation of sense, often complete. But it is the best I could do under the circumstances. It was the best I could do and retain and value to experience at all.

Now I have come to a different condition. I find that the values there discovered can be extended. I find myself extending the understanding to the work of others and to other things—

I find that there is work to be done in the creation of new forms, new names for experience

and that «beauty» is related not to «loveliness» but to a state in which reality playes a part

Such painting as that of Juan Gris, coming after the impressionists, the expressionists, Cezanne—and dealing severe strokes as well to the expression its as to the impressionists group—points forward to what will prove the greatest painting yet produced.

—the illusion once dispensed with, painting has

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