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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The foreground in a picture is always unattractive. . . Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.
Source: The narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night (1932; tr. 1934; repr. 1966, p. 70), voicing the opinions of landscape painter Claude Lorraine.-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, (May 27 1894-1961), French writer, physician; He travelled extensively on medical missions for the League of Nations, and wrote novels in his spare time.
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