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Osip Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia: incredible phrasing, even if we could argue about interpretations of various #artists:

Mandelstam "took a dislike to Matisse, a rich man's artist. The red paint of his canvasses fizzes like soda. He knows nothing of the joy of ripening fruits."

"Van Gogh spits blood like a suicide in furnished rooms... His canvases, smeared with the omelette of an accident, are as clear as visual aides—as the charts in a Berlitz School."