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essence of reality. Most exhibits are not worth going into - as most books are not worth reading.

The message of Art is to turn the mind from the special, the fragmentary, the personal, to the universal. All great artists know this. Great art proclaims it. Countless aeons of men have known this. To turn the mind from the special to the impersonal. 20,000 years ago cro magnon man artists carved and painted forms of superb beauty on cave walls [strikethrough] 20,000 years ago [/strikethrough].. That was no accident. And it was no love of beef steak or mere hunger that lay behind those achievements. For that urge creates its own type of masterpiece. Amazing paintings such as these are the record of the soul's yearning.
And they were done