When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
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