“You have no idea what is happening inside of you, when you look at a
painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily,
enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an
atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you
spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has
grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting, and has
thrown you to your knees. A will mightier than your own told you to
attempt to experience the appropriate emotions. Whose hand and whose
will? The hand is not the hand of a single man, the will is collective,
born in an interhuman dimension, quite alien to you. So you do not
admire at all, you merely try to admire.”
Diário de Witold Gombrowicz relatando visita com um amigo pintor ao Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires em 1953
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