Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Message about Messages
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This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
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Eine Annäherung an diese eigentümlichen Stilisten des Lebens kann nur beschreibend oder erzählend sich vollziehen, nicht aber erklärend. Der Kunst gelingt, was dem Denken weitgehend versagt bleibt, nämlich jenem Hauch von Trance, welcher Hingerissensein immer umgibt, Gestalt zu verleihen.
In the paintings her body is re-formed, not so much as a structure of flesh and bone but as a series of orifices, looped together by that sinuous line: tender, composed, swollen, moist, and abandoned (plate 95). The point is not that Picasso managed to will himself into the thoughts of this woman; he was interested in no such thing. Instead, he dep
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