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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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