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Stimulation of our tactile imagination awakens our consciousness of the importance of the tactile sense in our physical and mental functioning and making us feel better provided for life
And this brings us back once more to the statement that the chief business of the figure painter, as an artist, is to stimulate the tactile imagination
The proportions of small book to develop further a theme, the adequate treatment of which would require more than the entire space at my command
Satisfied with the crude and unillumined exposition given already, allowing myself this further word only, that I do not mean to imply get pleasure satisfaction
On the contrary, we get much pleasure from composition and perhaps more still from movement, to say nothing of all the possible associative pleasures
I wish to say that unless it satisfies our tactile imagination, a picture will not exert the fascination of an ever-heightened reality exhaust its ideas
And then its power of appealing to our emotions, and its “beauty” will not seem more significant at the thousandth look than at the first.
My need of dwelling upon this subject at all, I must repeat, arises from the fact that although this principle is important indeed in other schools, it is all-important in the Florentine school
