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Most of this modern abstractionist painting is done from the head and not from the heart. Its claim to be uncontrolled subconscious automatism is a self-deluded one. Its ugly splashes and smears, its crude splotches and stains fitly belong to the machine age, but totally lack the symmetry, the rationality, and the elegance which are not seldom found associated with the modern machine.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 183