from "Through the Louvre with Barnett Newman" by Pierre Schneider
- There is no true meaning. Historical reconstructions, in writing or on canvas as in stone, are an absurdity, because a work lives through its presence: The author gone, the presence must needs be ours. Iconology is for epitaphs.
- life is a spelling mistake in the text of death.
- Meaning is the viewer's business; but the incentive which makes him want to mean - that is the picture's prerogative.
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