“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”

—  Maurice Denis

as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922

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