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 most important I began there and then to revalue experience, to understand what I was at —

The virtue of the improvisations is their placement in a world of new values —

their fault is their dislocation of sense, often complete. But it is the best I could do under the circumstances. It was the best I could do and retain an} - value to experience at all.

Now I have come to a different condition. I find that the values there discovered can be extended. I find myself extending the understanding to the work of others and to other things —

I find that there is work to be done in the creation of new forms, new names for experience

and that « beauty » is related not to "loveliness » but to a state in which reality playes a part

Such painting as that of Juan Gris, coming after the impressionists, the expressionists, Cezanne — and dealing severe strokes as well to the expression its as to the impressionists group — points forward to what will prove the greatest painting yet produced.

— the illusion once dispensed with, painting has