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.. since then I have found consolation in William Blake. "Without Contraries is no progression", he says in his Proverbs of Hell . And Charles Baudelaire’s idea that "Variety is an essential condition of life" seems to me to be in perfect accord with my aspirations and with my intention, as a Futurist painter, to put 'life' in the place occupied by 'reasoning' in the art of the Cubist period.
Gino Severini, connecting Futurism and Cubism, referring to Blake and Baudelaire; as quoted in Letters of the great artists'”, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , London, 1963, p. 247 | ||
