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Drawing with a Fermata, 1918, pen, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2".

great modern search for FORMULA. Artists come to me--as I know they do to other painters--looking for secrets in paint-mixing, secret procedure, secrets of materials and design. This attitude reflects, I know, our present-day belief in technical processes, our abiding faith that American know-how makes us a better people.

I always try to point out, in answer to such queries, that technical processes in art (in life, too, for that matter) must remain subject to intuitive and humanistic ends. That the failure of this principle is the curse of the world today (and that goes for both sides of the apocryphal curtain) I won't go into. But wherever technical processes do become paramount, society--or art, since that's what we are talking about--become deranged. Klee was certainly the most intuitive of artists. And the great technical skill

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