If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
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Im not an abstractionist. Im not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. Im interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so on.
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
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