totality quotes

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

- Medardo Rosso
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).