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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy
For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Behind Biographical Curtain Geographical Landmark Longer Personal
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Alive Cicadas Legend Poem Poet Quiet Soul
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Charcoal Drawing Erase Fantastic Partly Range Use White Wrase
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Greater Illusion Impersonal Interest Observe Others Power Themselves
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Artist Communication Drawing Finished Need Only Private Public Relate Statue Work
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Art Country Italian Mountain Space Top Traditional
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Absence Loss might Paint Painting Touch True Unaware

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