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“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything to do with the subsequent treatment of that matter. And hence his associated claims that everything is potentially a fertile subject for art and that we can make discoveries as valuable in an advertisement for soap as in Pascal’s Pensées.”

• Alain de Botton on Marcel Proust

Alain de Botton’s words on Marcel Proust encapsulate a fundamental aspect of Guy Yanai’s artistic practice – in his paintings, ordinary objects and mundane moments are carefully …