Heinecken in Retrospect

1978, Heinecken:

“I am interested in what I term gestalts, picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.”

On Heinecken’s bulletin board:

“The greatest difference between the artist or poet and the ordinary person is found, as has often been pointed out, in the range, delicacy, and freedom of the connections he is able to make between different elements of his experience.” - I.A. Richards

Dante wrote that the mouth is where love ends. It begins, he said, in the eyes.

It was his eyes. It was the way he took us in with his eyes.
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