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“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41] <br class="br">Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922
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