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Because drawing is line, and air is spots of small size. Both minimal dimensions are fit for pen but not for paint.
[[underline]] Color requires that paint have an absolute [[/underline]] not relative minimum extent of surface effected with the brush, the size of which is adjusted rather to the color effect of the motif than to the size of the canvas. That is: small canvasses and large canvasses have a similar absolute size of paint stroke or paint blobs. Consequently small canvasses must have fewer of them than large ones and exhibit fewer color effects than large ones: The largest canvas is richest with color variety the smallest gives only the main color effects. A pure colorist who wants to product true color contonations (symphonies) must not so put his color on the canvas as he who draws with it the reality of things, in an illustrative or other effect. One must feel only the flat color (paint) as a musical tone which in itself is without meaning, but which takes on

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