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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Born Clothes Heart Lullabies Swaddled Year
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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