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Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.

Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.

Donald Kuspit
Art, Reflection, Everyday

The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

Donald Kuspit
Art, Mean, Mirrors
Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.

Donald Kuspit
Becoming, Demonstration, Collages
Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s”

Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

Donald Kuspit
Reflection, Self, Steps

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