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Hans Hofmann Quotes: It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
         

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.


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