\u201cWe work in the most complicated art, the most difficult and tiring art there is: painting; an art in which one must do everything oneself, especially today; everything must be created from scratch; therefore I am firmly convinced that now, more than in any other epoch, that in this profession, one must think deeply of the material substance we use [\u2026]. This is what I think of tempera. I have tried to express myself clearly and briefly, and, above all, I wanted this preliminary discourse of mine to be persuasive; hence I have entitled it in Latin:\u00a0oratio\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nPro tempera oratio<\/em>, 1920<\/p>\n