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Greece and I didn't even do the paintings until ten years later.) [[strikethrough]] So [[/strikethrough]] there wasn't a direct connection. [[strikethrough]]it just happened to work out that way.[[/strikethrough]] When I was there, what I saw really freaked me out because the care that was taken in making an [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] egg and dart motif for example (which we had to learn about in art history, and had no meaning to me except the form.)[[strikethrough]] didn't mean anything to me until I went there and saw the incredible way in which it was served. It[[/strikethrough]] had as much care as any of the great sculptures, that are [[strikethrough]] reproduced [[/strikethrough]]  on the Acropolis. [[strikethrough]] that you are photographed anyplace. [[/strikethrough]]  Not all of [[strikethrough]] them because not all of them [[/strikethrough]] Greek sculpture are the same quality. There are some Greek things that are not really very good. The very super, fantastic things, are incredibly beautiful. They're so beautiful that when I was at the Acropolis, and in the Athens museum & Delphi, it was almost like taking it for granted. All [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] critical faculties were suspended. I didn't think it would be good or beautiful or wonderful or anything, until just about the time I was ready to leave, [[strikethrough]] more or less, that [[/strikethrough]] what I thought was for good. I did come back again, the following spring. At the time, I thought it was for good. I didn't realize until some time later that I hadn't thought the way one usually does when one goes to see an exhibition. You know, is this good, or is this not good? It was so perfect that you simply took it for granted. It's just there. You didn't think about it being good or not good, or whatever it was. It simply existed. That kind of care was something that was important to aim for. You can find it, like the way [[strikethrough]] all the[[/strikethrough]] old jewelry is made as opposed to more recent things. I can look in Tiffany's window and I don't want any[[strikethrough]] of it [[/strikethrough]] thing. I do have [[strikethrough]] all the [[/strikethrough]] old jewelry that I love very much. There is someone I know who deals in it, and I sometimes go in there and look at the pieces through a jeweler's glass because they're so beautifully made. [[strikethrough]] They are worth more.[[/strikethrough]]  It's [[strikethrough]] like [[/strikethrough]] that feeling of craftsmanship and care about doing something, that feeling of excellence which is really extraordinary. [[strikethrough]] There's nothing that necessarily passes for art, in the grandiose sense, or the pretentious sense or any of that stuff. That has something to do with it. [[/strikethrough]] 

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