Klein

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IN ALL THE ARTS THERE IS A PHYSICAL COMPONENT WHICH CAN
NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED OR TREATED AS IT USED TO BE,
WHICH CANNOT REMAIN UNAFFECTED BY OUR MODERN KNOWLEDGE
AND POWER. FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS NEITHER MATTER NOR
SPACE NOR TIME HAS BEEN WHAT IT WAS FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL.
WE MUST EXPECT GREAT INNOVATIONS TO TRANSFORM THE
ENTIRE TECHNIQUE OF THE ARTS, THEREBY AFFECTING ARTISTIC
INVENTION ITSELF AND PERHAPS EVEN BRINGING ABOUT AN AMAZING
CHANGE IN OUR VERY NOTION OF ART.—PAUL VALÉRY¹

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Paul Valéry, “The Conquest of Ubiquity,” in The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, vol. 13, Aesthetics, ed. Jackson Mathews (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), 225.

Albert Camus wrote in 1958 “Avec le vide, les pleins pouvoirs” [With the void, full powers],

I believe that in the future one will get to painting only paintings of one color at a time and without anything other than color…. In literature there might be a way to get to the same point…a funny novel without plot, without closure, without subject, without message, and only with an atmosphere, a feeling of the same quality, very regular, profound and unified….⁴⁶

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Klein, Classeur Mon Livre.