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The painter of the first abstract picture walked into his studio one day, failed to recognize one of his own canvases standing upside down, and found that chaos of colors extraordinarily beautiful. He saw the beauty only when he stopped seeing the subject. Could knowing what something is get in the way of seeing its beauty?
— the birth of abstract art (Kandinsky's anecdote)
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